1. Motor

• Difference between dominant and non-dominant sides of body
• Avoiding crossing midline
• Hesitating to explore with movement
• Vascillating extremely in balance
• Does not automatically resume balance
• Riding a bike takes years to learn
• Difficulty remaining seated in chair
• Preferring to eat and work on the floor
• Not mastering simple athletic skills
• Difficulty with fine motor skills
• Resists eating with a spoon or fork
• Difficulty learning to tie shoes
• Talking self through motor tasks
• Difficulty using scissors
• Difficulty holding a pencil correctly
• Pressing deeply to control writing

2. Visual-Spatial-Organizational

• Difficulty with spatial perceptions and spatial relations
• Difficulty with recognition and organization of visual-spatial information
• Difficulty with visual memory and visualization
• Continuous dialogue
• Labeling everything verbally
• Not forming visual images or able to revisualize
• Not interested in building or construction toys
• Difficulty placing written responses
• Using counting, labeling, recounting
• Preferring predictable situations
• Difficulty remembering shapes
• Difficulty remembering sequence
• Writing slow and arduously
• Difficulty copying from chalkboard

3. Social

• Labeled “annoying” or “attention seeking”
• Blunders socially incessantly
• Missing non verbal social cues
• Not recognizing faces
• Not interpreting gestures
• Not recognizing facial expressions
• Not noticing changes in voice
• No changing in expression or tone of voice
• Responding with terse or curt responses
• Translating literally
• Continually misjudging and misinterpreting social circumstances
• Trusting naively
• Not understanding deceit, cunning or manipulation
• Taking everyone at face value
• Often regarded as “rude” or ill-mannered