At Risk for Dyslexia? Assess to Be Informed

The purpose of these assessments is to record and analyze a “snapshot” of a student’s reading skills and strategies.
Spelling Inventory - determine the child’s stage of spelling development
PAST - Phonological Awareness Skills Test: phonological awareness difficulties often have a genetic basis and is arguably the most common source of reading difficulties. Subcategories include:
   Elison - the ability to remove phonological segments from spoken words to form other words
   Blending Words - the ability to synthesize sounds to form words
   Sound Matching - the ability to select words with the same initial and final sounds.
   Phoneme isolation - the ability to isolate individual sounds within words
   Blending Nonwords - the ability to synthesize sounds to form nonwords.
Phonological Memory - represents the examinee’s ability to code information phonologically for temporary storage in working or short-term memory.
   Memory for Digits - the ability to repeat numbers accurately.
   Nonword Repetition - the ability to repeat nonwords
Rapid Symbolic Naming - measures the ability to include efficient retrieval of phonological information from 
       long-term or permanent memory and execute a sequence of operations quickly and repeatedly.
   Rapid Digit Naming - the ability to rapidly name numbers
   Rapid Letter Naming - the ability to rapidly name letters
Rapid Non-symbolic Naming - measures the ability to include efficient retrieval of phonological information from long-term or permanent memory and execute a sequence of operations quickly and repeatedly.
   Rapid Color Naming - the ability to rapidly name colors
   Rapid Object Naming - the ability to rapidly name objects
Alternate Phonological Awareness - measures the phonological awareness exclusively with nonwords.
   Blending Non-words
   Segmenting Non-words
Oral Reading Automaticity - Reading fluency refers to your child’s ability to read text accurately and automatically so that students can understand what they are reading. Reading at a conversational rate with accuracy and expression.

45 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.