Reading

Reading Disability Checklist

• Difficulty with letter and word recognition
• Difficulty understanding words and ideas
• Difficulty with general vocabulary skills
• Difficulty remembering and recognizing “sight words”
• Guesses at sounding out words rather than using analysis         
• Loses place frequently
• Slow reading- oral reading deteriorates progressively due to declining ability to retrieve word sounds quickly from memory
• Difficulty differentiating sounds in words
• Poor comprehension of main ideas and themes
• Difficulty understanding the relationship between sounds, letters, and words (issues with phonological  processing, i.e., the manipulation of sounds)
• Difficulty comprehending what has been read
• Poor reading fluency
• Poor at symbol decoding
• Confusing letters such as (ex. b, d, q, p)
• Confuses similar looking words
• Inserts or omits words or out of sequence
• Changing order (i.e.,  pronouncing words such as “psghetti” rather than “spaghetti” or “alunimum” rather than “aluminum”)

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Perceptual Disorders sometimes referred to as Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome

(Difficulty with Seeing Written Words on a Page) 
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Examples of Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome

Sees letters or words as:

• Blurry

• Moving
• Spinning
• Flashing
• Tunneling
• Glare on page or not sufficient contrast of letters on page
• Words move on page
• Unable to track words with the eyes
• Eyes do not converge easily or well - eye strain

• Peripheral vision problems

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