Indications there may be a reading disorder are:

• Confusion between left and right, difficulty learning to tie shoes
• Clumsy, uncoordinated, poor handwriting but may be very precise in other instances
• Doesn’t recognize rhyming patterns like cat, mat, sat or difficulty learning nursery rhymes
• Mixes up words that sound alike such as meaning to say specificand says pacific instead or mispronounces words such aminal instead of animal or says pasghetti instead of spaghetti
• Complains letters, numbers and other symbols on page moves or blurs.
• May be able to read a word correctly or even a paragraph at first and then be unable to read the same word correctly in the next paragraph.
• Mispronounces familiar words
• Makes mistakes when reading that is totally different from the words on the page. May say cat instead of kitten because they use the context of an illustration of a cat.
• Has a hard time understanding that words can be broken down into smaller units
• Can read a text several times and has little comprehension of storyline or meaning.
• May not connect letters with their sounds, such as the letter b with the “b” sound
• Reading is slow and laborious compared to peers
• Lacks reading strategies to sound out new words because they possess a phonemic deficit and lack understanding of phonemic rules
• Writing has repetitions, doubles, omission of words and poor hand-writing
• Spelling is based on the way words sound (phonetically) rather than correct spelling
• Difficulty spelling simple words like cat, map, nap
• May be hyperactive, highly imaginative and often lost in daydreams
• Frequently uses filler words likestuff and thing when speaking, has speech difficulties or mumbles a lot