SYMPTOMS OF NMI

Below are symptoms and indicators that may be due to an immaturity of central nervous system (this list does not contain all possible signs and symptoms of NMI).

  • Difficulty learning to ride a bike
  • Mixed laterality (being right hand dominant and left leg dominant.) above the age of 8 years
  • Inability to sit or remain at rest in silence
  • Difficulty learning to read and to write
  • Difficulty learning and using  script will prefer to write in block letters)
  • Difficulties and or avoidance in PE classes
  • Difficulty learning to tell time on an analog clock
  • Difficulty learning to swim (or strongly prefers swimming underwater)
  • Weak coordination of eye and hand
  • Problems with speech and pronunciation
  • Anxiety
  • Discrepancy between written and oral expression (better orally than in writing, etc.)