Learning Difficulties
Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dysgraphia.
What can Dyslexia (reading difficulty) look like?
- Slowness in decoding (working out) unfamiliar words
- Slow reading fluency
- Stilted out loud text reading
- Unwillingness or avoidance of reading
- Fear of reading aloud
- Difficulty comprehending the text
- Spelling difficulties, difficulty understanding and applying correct spelling rules and conventions to words
What can Dysgraphia (writing difficulty) look like?
- Difficulty forming letters
- Difficulty putting thoughts onto paper
- Incorrect letter spacing (writing letters and words without appropriate spaces in between)
- Writing incorrect grammatical sentences
- Incorrect pencil grip impacting on writing neatness and speed
- Difficulty writing along a line
What can Dyscalculia (maths difficulty) look like?
- Difficulty understanding number
- Difficulty understanding the relationship between numbers e.g. which number is smaller/larger
- Ineffective counting strategies
- Reduced or poor number identification fluency
- Difficulty completing simple sums of addition and subtraction
- Difficulty recognising symbols e.g. mixing up or not understanding the meaning behind +, -, X, ÷, =
- Slowness in mental calculations including basic facts e.g. 6+4=10
- Difficulty understanding, recalling and remembering times tables
- Difficulty reading and understanding time on a clock
If you or your child’s school have concerns about your child’s academic progress and/or learning difficulties, Purple Giraffe Psychology would be honoured to help you in investigating your concerns.
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