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Answer these simple questions. A check for "yes" by 10 or more may indicate a possible learning difference. Please call to talk with us about your answers. 316.684.READ (7323).

A simple checklist for learning differences:

Does your child:
Confuse left and right, up and down, before and after, yesterday and tomorrow?
Have trouble focusing on one thing?
Have trouble controlling crayons or scissors?
Have difficulty jumping rope, skipping, swimming, or other activities that require repeated rhythmic movements?
Have trouble organizing and managing simple tasks?
Confuse words (reading "was" as "went," "house" as "horse"?
Have other relatives who are poor readers?
Have trouble reading, spelling, or remembering printed symbols?
Have trouble finishing tests in the allotted amount of time?
Have difficulty carrying a tune?
Seem slow in sports?
Have trouble reading aloud?
Reverse numbers?
Have to hold books farther than 14 inches away to read them?
Have trouble with word problems ("If Johnny had six apples, ...")?
Have erratic, illegible handwriting? (Letters look different every time they are written?)
Seem late or irregular in speech development?
Seem inordinately clumsy?
Now have (or in the past) reversals in speech development?