Even though schools will tell parents that they need to see a neurologist to diagnose dyslexia, the following are essentials that must be considered in an assessment:
- Reading aloud from a graded word list to determine word identification skills and how automatically the words are read.
- Reading real and nonsense words in isolation under timed conditions.
- Reading passages orally at specific grade levels to determine reading rate, accuracy, and fluency.
- Spelling of real and nonsense words.
- Writing of a paragraph.
- Screening of phonological processing competence, including phonemic awareness and measures of rapid naming.
- Perceptual screening, including the copying of a series of increasingly difficult geometric designs.
- Screening of language functions.
Are you aware of any neurologists who are doing this type of assessment?
It’s simply not in their purview.
Then why do schools continue to insist upon this?