The following symptoms and complaints may indicate dyslexia:
Leading symptoms in preschoolers
- Limited understanding of language
- Difficulty speaking
- Delayed onset of speech
Leading symptoms at school age
- Omitting, transposing, adding words or letters to the text.
- Impairment of complete academic performance
- Frequent faltering in reading
- Low reading speed
- Losing the line in the text
- Illegible handwriting
- Many errors in dictation, but also transcribed texts; grammatical errors, punctuation errors.
- Reproduction of the text only insufficient
Despite frequent practice, there is usually little progress.
To make the diagnosis of dyslexia, the symptoms must, by definition, be present for more than three to six months.
According to the guideline “Diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with reading and/or spelling disorder”, the criterion of age or class norm discrepancy or the criterion of IQ discrepancy should be used to diagnose reading and/or spelling disorder. (Strong recommendation, recommendation grade A, 59% majority agreement).
