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Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Workplace and Exam Access Arrangement Assessments in Wimbledon, Wandsworth and South West London
I offer full diagnostic assessments for dyslexia and dyscalculia for children, young people and adults in and around Wimbledon. Each assessment provides a detailed understanding of an individual’s learning profile, including strengths, areas of difficulty, and tailored recommendations for support and intervention.
A full diagnostic assessment usually takes around 3 hours to complete. The written report outlines both strengths and areas for development and includes practical recommendations to guide effective support at home, in education, in examinations, or in the workplace. Where a profile of dyslexia or dyscalculia is identified, the assessment can provide an official diagnosis together with recommendations that may support applications for exam access arrangements, DSA, or workplace adjustments.
Assessments are available for children, students and adults, including post‑16 learners.
Additional investigation of ADHD and/or DCD/dyspraxia can also be included at an additional cost, as a screening for younger learners to support further referral or support recommendations, and within post‑16 assessments to support DSA applications.
I also provide exam access arrangement assessments for schools and learners who require formal evidence of need alongside their normal way of working, in line with current access arrangements guidance.
Workplace assessments can also be provided for adults who require diagnostic evidence and recommendations to support reasonable adjustments in employment or workplace training.
Specialist teaching is also available; please enquire for further information and current availability.
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ASSESSMENTS
Dyslexia Assessment
A wide range of of standardised tests are used including English attainment, phonological awareness, processing speed, memory skills and visual/verbal underlying ability. Both areas for development and strengths are detailed and are used to inform professionals on how to plan for effective interventions. If a profile of dyslexia is found the assessment will offer an official diagnosis along with recommendations that can be used for exam access requirements. Diagnostic reports can be used for DSA applications and requests for adjustments in the workplace.
A Literacy Screening can be completed for younger learners when a full diagnostic assessment is not yet appropriate. A comprehensive assessment is completed to identify areas of strength and areas for development which can be used to inform an intervention programme.
Dyscalculia Assessment
• A wide range of standardised tests are used including literacy attainment, tests of verbal, visual and visual-spatial reasoning and cognitive processing (such as memory, phonological processing processing speed and visual spatial skills).
• Informal, qualitative tests of understanding of number that use subitising, symbolic and non-symbolic magnitude comparison, ordering and concrete tools to explore concept of number and number sense.
• Timed and untimed standardised measures of Arithmetic (+, -, x, ÷). will help establish if time pressure makes a difference on performance.
• Mathematics reasoning and problem solving, including word problems to investigate if difficulties are related to number, or mathematical terminology, or language more generally.
A Mathematics Screening can be completed for younger learners, when a full diagnostic assessment is not yet appropriate. A comprehensive assessment is completed to identify areas of strength and areas for development which can be used to inform an intervention programme.