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Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties
According to the NHS website, NHS Choices, specialists have suggested the following
list of symptoms associated with ADHD in adults:
• Carelessness and lack of attention to detail
• Continually starting new tasks before finishing old ones
• Poor organisational skills
• Inability to focus or prioritise
• Continually losing or misplacing things
• Forgetfulness
• Restlessness and edginess
• Difficulty keeping quiet and speaking out of turn
• Blurting out responses and often interrupting others
• Mood swings, irritability and a quick temper
• Inability to deal with stress
• Extreme impatience
• Taking risks in activities, often with little or no regard for personal safety or
the safety of others – for example, driving dangerously.
Source: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-
adhd/symptoms/
Dyslexia
At an early age, a child with dyslexia may:
• Often mix up phrases, such as ‘cobbler’s club’ for ‘toddler’s club’
• Use words that looks similar, though mean different things, such as
‘horse’ and ‘house’
• Muddle letters, such as ‘p’ and ‘q’ or ‘b’ and ‘d’
• Be unable to remember the names of familiar objects, such as forgetting
the word ‘television’
• Have difficulty learning nursery rhymes and rhyming words, like ‘cat,
mat, sat’.
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