Is Your Child Experiencing one or more of the following?

• Doesn't seem to hear me (not just selective listening)
• Clumsy, uncoordinated
• Doesn't like to read
• Has difficulty with cutting, pasting, coloring and writing activities
• Consistently avoids doing homework
• Extremely restless and impulsive
• Immature emotionally and socially
• Hard to understand speech
• "Spacey", disoriented, can't make choices
• Poor memory;slow recall of facts
• Poor ability to follow directions or routines
• Makes consistent reading, spelling and writing errors
• Very poor handwriting/printing
• Can't stay with an activity
• Constantly losing things
• Overreacts - too angry, too silly, too fearful
• Strong discrepancies in skills and knowledge
• Often loses place or skips lines while reading
• Squints when reading;holds book too close or too far
• Doesn't finish tasks
• Academic skills slow in developing
• Makes the same mistakes over andover
• Has trouble following directions and routines
• Eassily distracted by sounds, odors, things around him.her
• Seems to need unusual amount of attention
• Unusually shy or withdrawn
• Cannot remember a sight word even a short time after he or she seems able to identify it automatically

Keep in mind that all children may experience one or several of these behaviors but children with learning problems demonstrate these behaviors more often, to a greater degree and in more settings than their peers.