In Infancy: |
Trouble with nursing, sucking, or digesting. |
Resistance to cuddling and body contact. |
Lack of response to sounds; excessive response to sounds |
Trouble following movements with eyes |
Absence of creeping or crawling |
Delaying in sitting, standing, or walking |
Delay in learning to talk |
In preschool years: |
Inability to follow directions |
Impulsive and uncontrolled behavior |
Excessive crying and disturbed sleep |
Poor sense of rhythm; uneven walk |
Fear of swings and slides |
Frequent falls and tendency to bump into things |
Purposeless hyperactivity |
Unusual quietness and inactivity |
Excessive craving for sweets |
Poor eating habits |
Constant interrupting and persistent chatter |
Excessive repetition in speaking, questioning, or playing |
Tendency to become more upset with people around than when alone |
Language problems as evidenced |
Tendency to be fearless, climbing counters and roofs with no concern |
In school years: |
Very poor handwriting |
Difficult cutting with scissors or coloring inside the lines |
Inability to tie shoelaces, button clothes |
Trouble in matching shapes and sizes: squares, circles, triangles |
Confusion in discriminating between letters, words, and numbers: b and d, was and saw, 6 and 9 |
No understanding of the difference between up and down, in or out, left and right, front or back |
Good verbal ability, but trouble reading. |
Mechanical reading without comprehension. |
Difficulty in expressing ideas. |
Erratic school work. |
Excessive activity that seems purposeless, restless, and undirected |
Unusual activity characterized by daydreaming and inner distraction |
Clumsiness and awkwardness in throwing and catching balls |
Difficulty in skipping, hopping, jumping |
Trouble game playing and group rules |
Confused sense of time and distance |
Emotional instability; explosions for no apparent reason |
Tendency to be extremely literal or humorless |
Excessive gullibility |
Extreme uneven performances in testing with some far above or far below |
