Dyslexia UK testing, reports and independent advice for both children and adults. Advice for parents about their children's problems with spelling, reading and learning at school, and adults with possible dyslexia.

Your Report evaluates the entire syndrome of dyslexia, leading to clear conclusions and recommendations on how to address your child's learning differences. The Dyslexia Test 7-16 also provides a precise measure of your child's present achievement in reading and spelling compared to other children of the same age.

Your Report provides a diagnosis and detailed feedback for parents, and it may also be shown to your child's school as an indication of the need for additional support.

The Report is not written by a computer program! On the contrary, every care is taken to ensure that the information about your child is presented in a way that will be meaningful. (Feedback from parents and adults who have received our Report may be seen on our page About us).

Your Assessment Report is detailed and thorough, usually about twelve to fifteen pages in length. The Conclusions and Recommendations will be emailed to you as soon as your Report is completed, so that you will not have to wait unnecessarily for the printed Report to arrive.

If your child is diagnosed as being dyslexic, or at risk of dyslexia, the Report will indicate whether they are slightly, moderately or severely affected. It is our experience that, following the recommendations we provide, there is no reason why almost any dyslexic child should not be able to progress into the broad average band of achievement for their age-group.

The important thing is to keep up your child's confidence, and every Report is accompanied by a Certificate of Achievement for your child's drawing, which may be proudly displayed at home!

Huge numbers of misunderstandings and inaccuracies surround the whole area of dyslexia assessment. This the reason why Direct Learning has established a reliable test that diagnoses whether a child or adult is dyslexic or not.

Even the term 'dyslexia' is mistrusted by a lot of psychologists because of its over-use by non-specialists to describe any kind of difficulty or delay affecting children's learning. Psychologists prefer the term 'specific learning difficulty', which is often used in our Reports.

At Direct Learning, we have established a thorough test which will assess your child's learning difficulties. The Test will tell you whether your child's difficulties are due to a 'specific learning difficulty' - dyslexia - or may be due to some other reason such as delayed learning or Attention Deficit (ADHD).

An explanation of technical terms used in the report is enclosed with every Report.

Using standardized, reliable tests from two universities, our home test checks through all the different indicators of dyslexia and highlights your child's particular pattern of learning differences. No two children are alike, and there is no single pattern which all dyslexic children match.

With years of experience of assessing and working with children with learning difficulties, our staff are able to give you a clear assessment of the particular challenges your child faces in their learning, and to provide you with strategies on how to help your child deal with them.

Adults who take the Dyslexia Test for Adults may rest assured that each of the items in the test may be carried out on your own at home, without involving anyone else. You simply need an ordinary audio tape player/recorder or standard micro-cassette player (not a Philips dictation system).

The Test has been specially written to take account of people's sensitive feelings about a possible learning difference.

Personal recommendations and techniques are given in your Report which are focused on your work (or study if you are at college). We receive a great deal of helpful feedback from adults, and techniques which will help you to manage your dyslexia - if you are dyslexic - are included in the recommendations. If it turns out that you are not dyslexic, then you will still have recommendations to help you with your difficulties.

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