Diagnosis - Common Symptoms
Childhood
- Difficulty in expressing oneself
- Difficulty in learning tasks such as tying shoes and telling time
- Inattentiveness; distractibility
- Inability to follow directions
- Left-right confusion
- Poor playground skills
- Difficulty learning to read
- Mixing the order of letters or numbers while writing
Adolescence and Adulthood
- Difficulty in processing auditory information
- Losing possessions, poor organizational skills
- Difficulty remembering names of people and places
- Hesitant speech; difficulty finding appropriate words
- Difficulty organizing ideas to write a letter or paper
- Poor spelling
- Inability to recall numbers in proper sequence
- Lowered self-esteem due to past frustrations and failures
All of these symptoms may vary in number and severity. If you have answered yes to 3 or more of these questions, you may want to be screened for learning differences.