What symptoms might indicate mild dyslexia?

Mild dyslexia symptoms include slow reading speed, confusion in word recognition, poor comprehension, poor reading fluency, and easily distracted attention. These typically emerge during school age and require timely attention and intervention. If these symptoms continue to affect learning and daily life for more than three months, medical evaluation is recommended.

1. Slow reading speed: The individual reads word by word, struggles to scan text smoothly, takes longer than peers to read the same material, and often reduces efficiency by repeatedly going back to re-read sections.

2. Word recognition confusion: Frequently confuses characters or letters with similar shapes, such as mixing up "辩" and "辨", or "b" and "d", or skipping/reading words incorrectly, leading to discrepancies between the perceived and actual text.

3. Poor comprehension: Although able to pronounce words correctly, the person struggles to quickly grasp their meaning, often requiring repeated reading to understand key information, with even greater difficulty processing complex sentences or paragraphs.

4. Poor reading fluency: Frequent pauses, inappropriate line breaks, or errors such as adding, omitting, or misreading words when reading aloud; speech may sound stiff and lack natural rhythm.

5. Easily distracted attention: Easily disturbed by external stimuli during reading, unable to maintain focus on the text for extended periods, often zoning out or skipping lines, which compromises reading accuracy and completeness.

In daily life, parents can help improve concentration through shared reading activities and segmented reading exercises, choose reading materials that spark interest to enhance motivation, gradually increase reading duration and difficulty, and use character-shape recognition games to strengthen word identification skills.