There are also more age - specific signs.Pre - school children may show: Persistent difficulty in learning
nursery rhymes or the name for things, like «table» or «chair»; difficulty with clapping a simple rhythm; enjoyment of being read to but no interest in words or letters; delayed speech development; primary school children may show a poor sense of direction and confusion between left and right; pronounced reading difficulties, specifically hesitant or laboured reading, omitted lines or repetition of the same line or loss of place in the
text and difficulties in saying multi-syllabic words.