Reading Disability Symptoms

There are several reading and language based disabilities that can manifest in both children and adults. Each has a variety of symptoms and signs that are unique to it, as well as some that are similar to those experienced with other disabilities. All can be dealt with patience and proper treatment plans once they have been diagnosed.

Dyslexia

• One of the most widely known and acknowledged language disabilities, dyslexia can appear when someone reads very slowly, has difficulties with the written language as well as known and unknown words. She may have a large disparity between what she can comprehend from listening to something verses reading something. Symptoms can also include difficulties with spelling, reading or writing letters in the proper order.

Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Deficit

• These disabilities are a mix of physical and mental issues and include many different symptoms. Sufferers may not be able to recognize words if only part of the word is showing. They may also lose their place often, turn their head often, hold the page or book at odd angles, or complain about blurry vision and eye itching while reading. Letter reversals and inversions are also a common symptom, especially with similar shaped letters such as b and d, p and q, and w and m.

Aphasia/Dysphasia/Global Aphasia

• These language disorders are mostly centered around issues with understanding spoken words, but they also include reading comprehension problems. Symptoms can include difficulty understanding jokes, an inability to comprehend something read and problems writing things clearly or accurately.

Reading Disorder

• Reading Disorder is sometimes called dyslexia and is very similar to that disability, however it is not usually associated with the spelling and writing deficits often seen in dyslexia. Instead it centers around impairments in reading and how quickly and accurately it can be done and how much of the read material is comprehended. Difficulties identifying single words or syllables, transposing or reversing letters or words, being unable to spell accurately, reading slowly both silently and out loud and being unable to comprehend what has been read are all symptoms of Reading Disorder.