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Have you ever suffered from migraines?
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Have you ever suffered from any allergies?
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Have you ever suffered from asthma?
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Have you ever had panic attacks?
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Have you ever been considered lazy?
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Have you ever been considered withdrawn?
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Have you ever been considered inattentive?
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Have you ever been considered aggressive?
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Have you ever been bullied?
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Do you make friends easily?
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Have you ever been defensive to the point of
discouraging friendships?
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Do you enjoy social occasions when you have to meet
and talk to strangers?
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Do you have difficulties with understanding and
following instructions?
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Have you always had a short-term memory? Do you
forget telephone numbers, dates, information generally?
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Do you have good and bad days for no apparent reason?
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Even when wearing spectacles ( if necessary), does
the print in books or on notices ever appear blurred or
the print jump from the page?
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Do you have confusion of thought, for instance when
you are trying to solve a problem?
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Do you have poor concentration?
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Do you have a low threshold of confidence?
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Do you have confusion with right and left? For
instance, if you were suddenly asked to turn to the right,
would you have to use some ploy or strategy to do so?
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Are you completely right-sided, that is, do you use
your right hand, leg, ear, eye, dominantly?
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Are you completely left-sided, that is, do you use
your left hand, leg, ear, eye, dominantly?
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Do you use both sides for different tasks, e.g. write
with the left hand, cut with scissors with the right hand,
kick with the right leg, catch a ball with the left hand and get confused when setting
out cutlery?
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Do you have directional difficulties, that is, lose
you way easily, etc.?
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Have you ever had problems with clumsiness, e.g.
tripping over, constantly dropping articles etc.?
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Have you ever had difficulties with catching a ball?
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Have you ever had problems with team games, where you
need to work together and learn the rules?
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Do you find it difficult to take messages on the
telephone and pass them on correctly?
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Do you mix up dates and times and miss appointments?
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Do you sometimes solve problems but cannot explain
the process by which you reached conclusions?
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Do you avoid what you consider to be a potentially
awkward situation?
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Have you ever used dyslexia as an excuse to avoid
situations?
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Do you ever over-organise, to try to avoid
confusions in life?
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Do you visualise situations, rather than use words
only, particularly when thinking about a situation or
problem?
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Have you ever adopted memory techniques to alleviate
forgetfulness?
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Have you ever refused promotion in work or hobbies,
because you are worried about the extra
responsibility?
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Have you ever refrained from asking for help because
you thought you may have appeared foolish or
stupid?
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Have you ever eaten for comfort?
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Do you work very hard at your work or your play, to
try to prove yourself?
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Do you change one situation (e.g. job), for another,
rather than try to solve a problem?
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Do you go into ‘overload’, if you are asked to
remember or perform more thanone task at a time?
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Have you accepted that your dyslexic difficulties
are part of who you are? (Your essential self)
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Did you feel relief when dyslexia was suggested was
suggested as a possible cause of any difficulties
that have affected your life?
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Have you ever masked your difficulties to avoid
allowing employers, teachers friends etc., to recognise
dyslexic manifestations?
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Have you family members with similar difficulties to
yourself?
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Have you formal qualifications, e.g. certificates,
diplomas, degrees?
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Have you a skill or hobby that you enjoy, e.g.
art/craft, ,music, sport, technology, people
communication skills (counselling) etc., that you consider has reached a level
of success?
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Have you ever started a course, whether academic or
vocational – and then withdrawn before completion
because of your perceived dyslexic difficulties?
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Do you think that IT is useful to you, e.g.
computers, word processors, recording devices etc.?
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Do you think that a growing maturity has given you a
new perspective on life?
