During the assessment

When we meet for your dyslexia / Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) diagnostic assessment, you should bring along any information about study skills support and examination access arrangements you may have had in the past. Also, please bring your prescription glasses, if you wear them for reading.

It is advisable that you allow about three and a half hours for the actual assessment (in some cases a shorter length of time may be sufficient). Throughout the assessment process, to ensure that you feel comfortable at all times, you will be able to take breaks to help you refocus.

Prior to the actual assessment, we shall briefly discuss the responses to your questionnaire, paying particular attention to what you have found easy / difficult in your experience with learning, both in education and employment. If you are a bilingual or multilingual speaker with English as your additional language, we shall spend a couple of minutes discussing the type of difficulties that you have encountered in your first and any additional languages.

After this brief conversation, we shall proceed to the actual assessment during which you will be asked to do some structured spelling, reading, writing and memory tasks, as well as some visual puzzles. Some of these tasks may be enjoyable and others challenging. During the assessment process, you may be able to identify and gain a better understanding of your difficulties and coping strategies.

People often find their diagnostic assessment reports both informative and liberating since they are finally able to understand the reasons behind some of the difficulties that they have experienced while in education and in the workplace.

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