Which Tests are Used in an Official Dyslexia Assessment?
Specialist Dyslexia Assessors use a rigorous suite of highly-regarded diagnostic tests.
These include an underlying ability test, reading tests, spelling test, rapid naming tests, phonological processing tests, short-term and working memory tests.
Other tests that can be added on are writing/handwriting tests, maths tests, visual tests (processing speed, memory, visual perception, visual-motor integration, visual stress), motor tests, and extra memory tests.
Here are some of the tests that Holly Swinton, a Specialist Dyslexia Assessor, currently selects from, which is a much larger list than most:
- Access Mathematics Tests
- Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, 6th Edition (Beery VMI)
- Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing – Second Edition (CTOPP-2)
- Detailed Assessment of Speed of Handwriting (DASH) or DASH 17+
- Developmental Test of Visual Perception – Third Edition (DTVP-3)
- Dyslexia Screening Test Junior (DST-J)
- Educational Assessment of School Youth for Occupational Therapists (EASY-OT)
- Feifer Assessment of Mathematics (FAM)
- Gray Oral Reading Tests – Fifth Edition (GORT-5)
- Helen Arkell Spelling Test (HAST-2)
- Helen Arkell Auditory Tests (HAAT)
- Jordan Left-Right Reversal Test – Third Edition
- Neale Analysis of Reading Ability – Second Edition (NARA-II)
- Phonological Assessment Battery (PhAB)
- SCAN Tests for Auditory Processing Disorders (SCAN-3:C, SCAN-3:A)
- Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT)
- Test of Auditory-Perceptual Skills – Revised (TAPS-R)
- Test of Auditory Processing Skills – Third Edition (TAPS-3)
- Test of Mathematical Abilities – Third Edition (TOMA-3)
- Test of Memory and Learning – Second Edition (TOMAL-2)
- Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE-2)
- Test of Silent Reading Efficiency and Comprehension (TOSREC)
- Wide Range Achievement Test IV (WRAT5)
- Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning – Second Edition (WRAML-2)
- Wide Range Intelligence Test (WRIT)
- Wilkins Rate of Reading Test
