They sometimes transpose numbers or the time when reading a 24 hour clock. A weakness of short-term memory. It therefore takes longer for dyslexic students to encode information for effective storage and retrieval into the long term memory. The problem with retrieval of this information is not stupidity or lack of cognitive skills but is usually caused by slower processing skills due to a problem with coding either the visual or phonological aspects of language or both. A difficulty in motor integration.
Some students experience difficulties with fine motor co-ordination.
Sometimes poor verbal articulation is a result of a problem with auditory motor co-ordination. A sequencing problem. Their ideas, words and sentence structure get 'all jumbled up'. Despite this, the answers are often contained within the piece of writing. An organisational problem.