01 NRDC Dyslexia 1-88 update - Texthelp

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Research Report
Function Checklist item Observations
Verbal short-term
memory
cont.
Has trouble dialling phone
numbers (21)
Has difficulty following
directions, especially multiple
directions (25)
Unable to tell you what has just
been said (27)
Finds it hard to remember the
sense of what has been read (31)
Becomes confused when
speaking in public (35)
Has difficulty in taking telephone
messages for others (36)
The problem might be also attentional
or linguistic
A failure of conceptual, not verbal,
recall but might originate in a verbal
short-term memory failure.
But so do many people. Practice makes
perfect.
Might also entail problems with speech
perception, spelling and writing.
Verbal working
memory
Has difficulty in reciting months
backwards (39)
Has difficulty with mental
arithmetic (56)
Attention
Has a short attention span, is
impulsive and/or easily
distracted (4)
Poor readers might have deficits in one
or more of the functions of sustained
attention, selective attention,
attentional switching and auditoryverbal
working memory.
Social cognition
Has difficulty in telling or
understanding jokes (5)
Might involve misunderstanding of
interpersonal dynamics.
Has difficulty with social skills,
might misinterpret social cues (7)
Might entail linguistic deficits
(vocabulary or affective prosody) or
difficulty in interpreting facial
expression, stance and gesture.
Motor control
Poorly coordinated (26)
Might indicate cerebellar dysfunction.
Scrambles the sounds in long
words (37)
Might indicate impaired interhemispheric
communication.
Miscellaneous
Day-to-day variability in
performance (1)
Effortful work of any kind requires full
concentration and even slight fatigue
might lead to marked performance
decrements.
Can read well but not write well,
or vice versa (2)
The former is likely to be more common
than the latter.