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Writing

• difficulties in uttering a word sound by sound (spelling);
• no consistency in handwriting, upper and lower case letters jumbled up, distorted letters
and parts of letters are disproportionate;

• letters of similar shape continue to be confused;
• speaking while writing, later whispering;

• lots of orthographic mistakes, often changeable, i.e. one word may be written in several
ways (tall-dall-toll etc.);

• difficulties in composing longer sentences and texts;
• difficulties in learning and observing language rules;
• difficulties in learning foreign languages;

• remarkable difference between oral speech and reading.

Cognitive skills

• difficulties in perceiving a whole and its parts;

• difficulties in perceiving, reconstructing and creating sequences and sizes (forming a
line of animals by their size, reconstructing an event sequence in fairy tales);

• difficulties in the perception of direction (e.g. left-right, up-down, front-back, before-
after, yesterday-today-tomorrow);
• difficulties in perceiving temporal and spatial relationships;

• difficulties in learning facts and recalling them quickly;
• limited scope of short-term memory, difficulties in remembering names of people and
places, learning poems and drama roles;

• difficulties in processing, storing and using verbal information;
• difficulties in doing several things at a time, e.g. listening and writing during a lesson;

listening to instructions while walking (from classroom to canteen);
• difficulties in perceiving rhythm of movement and motion;

• frequently clumsy, stumbles a lot;
• poor balance and a poor ability to perform several actions or movements at the same
time (get dressed and listen to what is being said; walk on the stairs and speak);

• difficulties in the cooperation of two hands (hold a bottle in one hand and unscrew the
top with the other hand; tie shoelaces; button and zip up);

• do actions without seeing (eye control) (comb hair at the back of the head, tidy a collar).