At primary school.
Watch out for a child who:
• Is doing much less well than expected
• Enjoys the content of stories and information read to him or her, but when attempting to read, over-uses the content to ‘guess’ at words
• Has marked and persistent difficulties with reading and spelling
• Writes letters and/or numbers the wrong way round
• Leaves letters out of words or puts them in the wrong order
• Takes a long time to complete any written work
• Has difficulty remembering times tables or the alphabet, or putting things like the days of the week in order
• Needs to use fingers or written marks to do simple calculations when other children are easily able to do them in their heads
• Confuses left and right
• Aappears careless and inattentive
• Has unusual difficulties in dressing or tying shoe-laces.
