Adult Dyslexia
Checklist.
Please
answer Yes or No to each question.
Please
answer every question. If in doubt tick the answer that you feel is
true most often.
1. Do you find difficulty telling left
from
right?
2. Is map reading or finding your way
to a strange place confusing?
3. Do you dislike reading aloud?
4. Do you take longer than you should
to read a page of a book?
5. Do you find it difficult to
remember the sense of what you have read?
6. Do you dislike reading long books?
7. Is your spelling poor?
8. Is your writing difficult to read?
9. Do you get confused if you have to
speak in public?
10. Do you find it difficult to take
messages on the telephone and pass them on correctly?
11. When you have to say a long word, do you
sometimes find it difficult to get all the sounds in the right order?
12. Do you find it difficult to do sums in
your head without using your fingers or paper?
13. When using the telephone, do you tend to
get the numbers mixed up when you dial?
14. Do you find it difficult to say the
months of the year forwards in a fluent manner?
15. Do you find difficult to say the months
of the year backwards?
16. Do you mix up dates and time and miss
appointments?
17. When writing cheques do you find
yourself making mistakes?
18. Do you find completing forms
difficult and confusing?
19. Do you mix up bus numbers like 95
and 59?
20. Did you find it hard to learn your
multiplication tables at school?
The best twelve indicators are shown below
in order of importance.
Nine or more YES responses on the
questionnaire as a whole would indicate a dyslexia type problem. You may
wish to seek further advice. Your local
1. Q17
2. Q13
3. Q7 4.
Q16
5. Q18
6. Q10
7. Q19 8. Q14
9. Q
20 10.Q4 11.Q1 12.Q11
Reference Michael
Vinegrad:
A revised Dyslexia Checklist. Educare,
No 48 March 1994
This is a British Dyslexia Association
information sheet A03
Please see web site www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk for more
information.