#2 Difficulty Learning to tie shoes
If a child has a difficulty in learning to tie shoes, this may signify a weakness in spatial skills and or fine motor skills. Both are required for tying shoes and weaknesses in these areas are signs of visual dyslexia.
So don’t opt for the slip ons. Use shoe tying to help with these skills. Practicing skills develops them. Every little bit helps.
#3 Late Talking
Phonological dyslexia is a difficulty with sounds. Someone with phonological dyslexia may have challenges discriminating between different sounds. They may have difficulty with auditory closure. Or they may have difficulty with auditory memory. This makes it difficult to pull the sounds out of words and that will cause difficulty in learning to speak. It will also give trouble in as they learn to read. Another related thing to look for is vocabulary. A child with dyslexia may have a smaller vocabulary than is expected for their age or may regularly confuse words.
#4 Confusing left and right
This is also a sign of a difficulty in visual-spatial skills. Visual spatial skills are at the core of all learning. Each of our senses are integrated through the visual-spatial sense. In other words we detect the distance and direction we hear, see, or feel things at and put this all together to form a bigger picture. When visual-spatial skills are weak we have trouble forming that bigger picture. And we will have trouble formulating a bigger mental picture in a holistic way as well. In other words, we can’t think as well using all of the thinking processes together. We may have strengths in auditory thinking and weaknesses in visual thinking or vice versa. And what we really want is to be strong in an integrated way.