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Assessments
Diagnostic Assessment for Families
A diagnostic assessment (for dyslexia or dyscalculia) requires detailed background information, attainment and standardised test data to be professionally interpreted in order to identify an individual's cognitive profile - a pattern of their relative strengths and difficulties; their ability to perceive and react, process and understand, store and retrieve information, make decisions and produce appropriate responses - their ability to learn.
As a specialist teacher and professional assessor with a current APC (an assessment practising certificate) I can administer and interpret your child’s learning profile, and provide advice on the suitable strategies to help them at school and at home.
Tests would be personally administered in a confidential face-to-face setting. The resulting profile outlined would be explained in a detailed report, with suggested supportive strategies; this information could be shared with your school’s SENCo and teaching team to help them further adapt their teaching practice to support your child in the classroom.
Diagnostic assessments can be commissioned:
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from the age of seven, to support their progress through primary and secondary education.
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for students about to embark upon higher education applying for Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA) funding. A diagnostic assessment is the proof required to evidence a specific learning difficulty in order to apply for the Disabled Students' Allowance. See www.gov.uk/disabled-students-allowance
All assessments would be conducted and the report written, in accordance with the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC) current guidelines for diagnostic assessment and report writing. I am listed on the Specific Learning Difficulties Assessment Standards Committee (SASC) web site www.sasc.org.uk
Please complete the below form if you would like more information on this service.
Assessments to support schools and colleges
As a qualified Assessor of Psychometric Testing, Assessment and Access Arrangements I am able to administer standardised tests to identify and evidence appropriate Access Arrangements (as per the Joint Council for Qualifications requirements).
This would involve administering appropriate standardised assessments, and completing Part 2 of the required ‘Form 8’ for each eligible student.
I have extensive experience of assessing for exam access arrangements and am happy to advise SENCos and their teams on the appropriate application of the current Guidelines issued by the Joint Council for Qualifications (having completed the SASC update training).
Please contact me for further advice.
