Poor Visual Spatial Attention May Help Identify Dyslexia

A new research outcome from Italy has revealed that poor visual spatial attention in young children may be a foreshadowing of Dyslexia. Since dyslexia is best treated when young, any means to help raise suspicion is welcome. Well known and established early suspicion raising indicators are:

• Genetic. A child has a 50% chance of dyslexia if the father is a struggling reader, and a 40% chance if the mother had reading struggles. It can skip generations as well.
• Early speech development issues;
• Weak rhyming skills;
• Low ability to do phonics related word games, such as: Enter, Anter, Onter, or Sad, Sod.

This new research indicates that a young child's ability to visually focus might be a means in early identification as well.