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Home Your Dyslexic Potential

1. How well do you remember major events in your life?
a. excellently
b. fairly well
c. at an average level
d. poorly
2. How often do you get so engrossed in your thoughts that you lose track of what is going on around you, or of time?
a. Rarely or never
b. From time to time
c. Regularly or habitually
3. How often do you get flashes of inspiration?
a. Rarely or never
b. From time to time
c. Frequently
4. Which of the following statements most applies to you?
a. I have to fully understand something in order to remember it
b. I can memorise information without having fully understood it
5. Do you think with the sounds of words (internal monologue):
a. A lot
b. From time to time
c. Rarely or never
d. Don't understand the question
6. Do you think non-verbally – with pictures, feeling and/or intuition:
a. A lot
b. From time to time
c. Rarely or never
d. Don't understand the question
7. Which of the following is more useful to you when grasping a new idea:
a. Word thinking
b. Picture, feeling and/or intuitive thinking
8. Are any of the following, or have any of the following ever been, areas of weakness for you? (Tick any or all that apply).
a. handwriting
b. time management
c. memory for number sequence (e.g. telephone numbers)
d. fine or gross motor skills
e. telling left from right
f. personal organisation
g. short-term memory (e.g. where you put your keys, or memory for appointments)
h. learning foreign languages
i. paying attention
j. practical skills such as DIY
k. reading
l. spelling
m. numeracy
n. social skills
9. Are you good at any of the following? (Tick any or all that apply).
a. Computers/IT
b. Art or design
c. Science or engineering
d. Sport
e. Music
f. Drama or public speaking
g. Storytelling
h. Cooking
i. DIY, woodworking or generally "fixing" things
j. Leading and/or organising other people
10. How would you rate your lateral thinking ability (i.e. your ability to come up with original or unusual solutions to problems and issues)? (tick one):
a. Excellent
b. Good
c. Average
d. Poor
e. Very bad
11. How would you rate your problem-solving ability? (tick one):
a. Excellent
b. Good
c. Average
e. Poor
f. Very bad
12. When reading, do you sometimes make mistakes on, or miss out, little words such as “the,” “was”, “if” or “their” despite being able to read some longer words confidently such as “elephant” or “tyrannosaurus”?
a. Rarely or never
b. From time to time
c. Frequently
13. When reading, can you get to the end of a chunk of text and suddenly realise you haven’t understood it?
a. Rarely or never
b. From time to time
c. Frequently
14. In maths, have you been criticised for getting the right answer but without showing how you worked it out?
a. Yes
b. No
IMPORTANT NOTE: This survey is intended to give you a general sense of how dyslexic your thinking style is. It should not be considered a formal diagnosis of dyslexia. Formal diagnosis can only be given by an educational psychologist or a trained dyslexia specialist.

For simplicity, all questions are asked using "you". If filling in this questionnaire for another person (such as your child), please treat "you" as meaning that person.

 
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