Preschool Years

Characteristics of dyslexia and related disorders

Preschool Years

Delay in learning to talk
Difficulty with rhyming
Difficulty pronouncing words (e.g. "pusgetti" for "spaghetti", "mawn lower", for "lawn mower")
Poor auditory memory for nursery rhymes and chants
Difficulty adding new vocabulary words
Inability to recall the right word (word retrieval)
Trouble learning and naming letters and numbers and remembering the letters in his/her name
Aversion to print (e.g., doesn't enjoy following along if a book is read aloud)