Dyslexia Assessments and Services

IS AN ASSESSMENT RIGHT FOR ME?

If you think that your child might have a specific learning difficulty, speak to Karen, and she will help you decide if a full diagnostic assessment is right for you, and if additional tests to examine numeracy skills and general maths development are required.

Diagnostic Dyslexia Assessment(from 1st October 2024) £500 

A Diagnostic Assessment for Dyslexia is required to apply for extra time in examinations, as evidence when applying for funded support, and may help to identify the best ways forward to improve progress. It involves an examination of ability, including underlying cognitive processes such as working memory, as well as verbal and non-verbal reasoning, vocabulary, phonological awareness, phonological and visual processing and fine motor skills. Attainment in the areas of single word reading, reading comprehension, spelling, writing and maths, is also examined.  Our assessor uses the comprehensive Test of Dyslexia (TOD) as part of the assessment battery.

For many children, the difficulties linked to their processing differences extend across literacy and maths, and it is not necessary to obtain a separate diagnosis of dyscalculia in order to request appropriate support or reasonable adjustments in maths. Dyslexia Tests UK Diagnostic Assessments include standardised tests of maths calculation and fluency which are acceptable evidence of the extent of difficulties with maths.

The assessment process takes around three hours (longer if additional maths tests are included), and is designed to be engaging and enjoyable, involving lots of short activities to avoid fatigue.  Our SASC registered assessor (Assessment Practising Certificate issued by the Dyslexia Guild) will carefully analyse your child's results, identify strengths and weaknesses, and produce a comprehensive report. The report will identify whether or not your child's profile meets the criteria for a diagnosis of SpLD - Dyslexia and other co-occurring difficulties. 

The report will be written according to SASC guidelines, and contain advice and recommendations about what to do next. Dyslexia is a life-long disability, it does not go away, and your diagnosis of Dyslexia will also remain valid.  

USEFUL LINKS,  TIPS AND RESOURCES

PHONOLOGY - speech sounds

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phonics-phase-2-and-3-cued-articulation-gifs-12440925 

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/phonics-phase-2-and-3-cued-articulation-gifs-12440925

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPLnfNciLbA

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/search?q=cued+articulation&c=244&r=parent

https://www.understood.org/articles/en/phonological-awareness-what-it-is-and-how-it-works

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPLnfNciLbA

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cued-Articulation-Consonants-Vowels-2010/dp/0864318464/ref=asc_df_0864318464/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310943444083&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15310387639832397348&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9044978&hvtargid=pla-562726374616&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

https://www.soundsforliteracy.co.uk/#:~:text=Cued%20Articulation%20Training,Years%20teachers%20and%20teacher%20assistants.

PHONICS - matching letters and sounds

https://www.readnaturally.com/research/5-components-of-reading/phonological-awareness

https://literacytrust.org.uk/information/what-is-literacy/what-phonics/

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letters-and-sounds-principles-and-practice-of-high-quality-phonics-phase-one-teaching-programme

https://www.letterland.com/

https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/

https://www.hamiltoneducation.org.uk/collections/code-breakers

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/

https://www.understood.org/articles/en/evidence-based-literacy-strategy-elkonin-sound-boxes

www.soundsforliteracy.co.uk

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-621-ccvc-and-cvcc-phoneme-frames-elkonin-boxes

https://www.sparklebox.co.uk/literacy/alphabet/

SPELLING

:https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/18288/1/English_Appendix_1_-_Spelling.pdf 

https://www.3plearning.com/blog/how-to-teach-spelling/

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/lcwc/index.html

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/look-say-cover-write-check

https://www.holyfamily.swindon.sch.uk/online_learning/sen/SOS.pdf

https://localoffer.haltonchildrenstrust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/SOS-Spelling-Method.pdf

https://www.sparklebox.co.uk/literacy/spelling/

HANDWRITING

https://www.swft.nhs.uk/application/files/5514/6158/0964/5_handwriting_letter_formation.pdf

https://www.theottoolbox.com/handwriting/

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog/twinkl-handwriting-tutorial-flying-start-intervention-programme

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-handwriting/

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/handwriting-practice-booklet-6089148

https://www.worksheetworks.com/english/writing/handwriting.html

https://www.sparklebox.co.uk/special-needs/dyslexia/handwriting.html

https://www.sparklebox.co.uk/literacy/writing/letter-formation/

SIGHT WORDS - high frequency words we just need to know

https://www.dyslexiasupportservices.com.au/pdf_files/HighFrequencyWords2020.pdf

https://www.sparklebox.co.uk/literacy/vocabulary/#.YSkB-7BKjIU

http://www.highfrequencywords.org/first-100-high-frequency-word-lists.html

http://www.highfrequencywords.org/next-200-high-frequency-word-list-

https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/advice-and-resources/free-teaching-resources/phonic-high-frequency-word-chart/

https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/content/uploads/2020/08/A4-high-frequency-poster-OCT20.pdf