Difficulties in learning, reading or writing

The main reasons for reading problems are:

1. Ineffective reading instruction
2. Auditory perception difficulties
3. Visual perception difficulties
4. Language processing difficulties

Some children have auditory discrimination problems. It is not unusual for children to reverse letters and words when they read or write. They are unable to differentiate left-right, on self or paper. Lot of times kids find it difficult to pay attention on a subject at a stretch.

Children and adults who do not learn to read through an intensive phonics program often have one or more of the following symptoms:

• Below grade level reading achievement
• Slow reading
• Poor comprehension
• Fatigue after reading only for a short while
• Poor spelling skills
• Lack of enjoyment from reading
• Difficulty repeating what is said to them
• Difficulty understanding or remembering what they have just read
• Difficulty putting their thoughts on paper

Another group of children has difficulty matching the word image on the page with a previously stored image in their brain. Exercises that train the brain to "see" more accurately may help but instruction with phonics is the best approach to overcome this problem.