The pediatric nurse listens to a 9-year-old child read to his 6-year-old roommate. What action by 9-year-old child leads the nurse to question possible dyslexia?
a. Becomes hyperactive and ceases to read
b. Reads the word dog as God
c. Makes up a story rather than reading the text
d. Stutters as he reads
ANS: B
Dyslexics often transpose a word as they read; for example, the word is dog, but it appears to the dyslexic child as the word God.
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