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What happens during a dyslexia assessment?
An overview to help you know what to expect.
What happens during an assessment?
A free conversation
Talk about your concerns and what you hope to find out. There is no need to know which service you need.
A little background
After your conversation, Kim requests the relevant background information to help plan your assessment.
Your assessment
The assessment is tailored to the individual. It typically takes around 2–3 hours, depending on the assessment and circumstances.
Understanding the results
Kim considers the findings alongside your background and experiences of learning.
Your report, where applicable
Full reports explain strengths, difficulties and recommendations. Please allow up to three weeks after assessment.
What does a full diagnostic report include?Feedback and next steps
Once your report is completed, Kim talks through the findings and recommendations in straightforward language and gives you time to ask questions. You are not left to interpret the report on your own.
Tell Kim about any deadlines during your initial conversation so that timings can be agreed beforehand.
Your full diagnostic assessment and report
Following a full diagnostic assessment, you receive a detailed written report bringing together the information gathered throughout the process. The areas explored are tailored to the individual.
What your full diagnostic report includes
Areas explored
- Background and learning history
- Relevant developmental and educational information.
- Language skills
- Understanding and using spoken language.
- Reasoning skills
- Verbal and non-verbal problem-solving and reasoning.
- Memory and processing
- Including working memory and processing speed.
- Phonological processing
- How we recognise and work with the sounds in words.
- Literacy skills
- Reading, spelling and writing, including accuracy and fluency.
- Other relevant areas
- Numeracy or handwriting, where appropriate to the individual.
Findings and next steps
- Assessment results
- Clear explanations of the relevant test scores and findings.
- Learning profile
- Individual strengths and areas of difficulty.
- Diagnostic decision
- A clear professional conclusion about whether the findings are consistent with dyslexia.
- Recommendations
- Practical, personalised strategies and support based on the assessment findings.
- Access arrangements
- Where appropriate, information to support applications for examination arrangements. Formal arrangements remain subject to the relevant examining body’s requirements.
The report brings together your learning profile, diagnostic outcome and recommended support. Your assessor explains the findings and recommendations, with time for your questions.
Screening and updated assessments have a different scope. Discuss the evidence you need for school, work or university during your free conversation.
If you have an older diagnostic report and need evidence for examinations, discuss your existing report and institution’s requirements with Kim.
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You do not need to choose an assessment or understand the prices before booking your free conversation. The appropriate service and final fee are agreed before you commit.
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