Photo of dyslexia screen - not sure of explanation

[MyOtherCarIsAPorsche]

Can anyone interpret these results and indicate what type of intervention is necessary if any?

The explanation is confusing as it seems to be saying there is not a problem and nothing needs to be put in place.

This is a child who makes anagrams out of words when reading. So for instance would read 'felt' instead of 'left', which obviously changes the meaning of what she's reading/understanding.

In maths she would put 17 + 3 = 74 as she would see 71+3.

When asked a question (any question, not just at school) she takes an age to respond. It can appear as if she is ignoring you/people.

Is she dyslexic or 'slow'?

She's awaiting an ASD assessment.

It’s too fuzzy to read.

Any better?

Slow Processing speed, dyscalculia?

Looks like she may have difficulty with working memory and processing. Standardised scores: anything under 100 is below expected, so that’s how I came to this conclusion.

It's not just numbers that she reverses - it's letters and anything else. She will reverse a simple drawing when copying it - a mirror image.

Anyone any idea of any interventions necessary? To improve these areas?

The not answering a question could be due to slow auditory processing
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Worse when stressed. Or busy environment.

It feels weird. (From inside and outside)

She may also not be heating you at all as you've not cued her up with her name first and does not know it's a question for her. Or she is busy thinking about something else...(you can hear the question...but there is a delay in processing it ie. as in realising it is for you and that you need to do something with it...)

Did the assessor not give recommendations?

The explanation was mainly average/normal, no further input.

Just said she needs more thinking time. Will this apply to tests?

Could do. But you would need a report to that effect probably from an EP.

@BlackeyedSusan

She's often described as quirky/weird.

She absolutely ignores anyone who looks at her/speaks to her. She shuts down. She's been described as cold/emotionless.

She will not reply/respond to anyone, adults/peers, who say hello/goodbye.

She's always reminded well before expected encounters to remember to respond politely/in a friendly way - she never has.

No idea what, but I'd say that range of centile results suggests she has some learning differences, and us very asynchronous in her presentation. She is in the top 10% for some things, and bottom 10% for others. That's frustrating!

If she doesn't fit a standard diagnosis the usual description is specific learning difficulties which I think would apply here.

There are aspects of her processing which are very fast and very good and aspects if her processing which are very slow.

You would need to work on her specific difficulties which mostly look like phonological working memory.

@Octavia64

Does it indicate dyslexia?

Or someone non specific?

What kind of tasks can she do to improve? Or is she just wired differently permanently?

Her mum is autistic and very dyslexic - also dyspraxic.

Something

I'm not qualified to diagnose.

My son at various points has had diagnoses of dyslexia dyspraxia and specific learning difficulties.

That report does tell you what she is not good at but in unhelpful language and it is always possible to improve.

She needs to practice the specific difficulties - so telling the difference between 62 and 26 for example.

I would suggest she has a slow working memory. This means that she will be much slower at complex tasks (for example with multiple steps).

The really surprising one for me is the speed at recalling digits backwards is so high compared with the forwards ones! Perhaps she has an amazing brain that sort of doesn’t distinguish between order of things - so backwards is just as easy as forwards (where most people find forwards much easier) - this reminds me of my daughter who can write very neatly in mirror writing (and Leonardo Da Vinci for that matter of fact). I would perhaps be interesting is testing more in this area as perhaps it suggests that she has issues with stress or concentration and wasn’t able to concentrate on the forwards digits and/or was stressed by the test and/or did not understand the task.

If I was interpreting the results I would suggest:

• teachers break down tasks into smaller steps;
• 25% extra time in assessments;
• possibly a prompt;
• extra support and time for planning out longer pieces of work.

Looking back at the results though, I’m actually wondering if the ones she is scoring low on are ones where she had to speak aloud/interact with the examiner? Could the communication issues be linked?

The results would not really indicate dyslexia to me but they certainly warrant some support and further investigation.

My son had that with digits.

He was also quicker at reading nonsense words than reading real words

Mirror imaging can be part of asd.

Something we did a lot of way back when was sequencing.

Sets of cards that you arrange in order from left to right. The more you practice that, the more your brain prefers to work that way round.

So imagine a scene of a car travelling towards, then past a tree. That would be on three pictures, and you’d order them to show that.

Depending on her age there will be age appropriate versions- comic strips cut up eventually, for example.

Lots of work on ordering numbers, and tens and units.

lots and lots of repetition so the brain starts to default/pay attention to the correct order.

On the graph, 6 out of 9 blocks are concerning - but nothing has been put forward with regards to additional help.

This screening tool assessment took place before Christmas.

We only found out that the test results were available today because mum happened to ask the SENCO in passing if the test had been done.

She has had excellent comprehension results despite her reading speed being poor.

She's in year 3 - she will be 8 at the end of summer.

Suggestions:

1 eye test.
Reading speed can be poor if she doesn't have good vision.
In particular ask the optician to check for "convergence insufficiency" which means her eye muscles get tired when changing focus rapidly.

There are exercises she can do if this is a problem

2 phonological seems to be an issue. So get a hearing test as well.

3 best way to improve reading speed if eyes and ears are ok is to do lots and lots of practice.

While the standard score is 100, anything between 85-115 is considered within average range, so only one of those scores falls beyond that range. Given that it is the result of one test taken on one day, it would be worth retesting that element on a different day in case results are markedly different. You could even do this at home since it was digits forward - you say a range of digits building up from 2 e.g. 7, 4 with a brief pause between them and she repeats them back to you. You gradually increase to 3 digits, 4 etc. and stop when she has made three consecutive errors.

Hi @MyOtherCarIsAPorsche I have dyslexia and often swap letters around e.g. poot farth or par cark.

My daughter says Dicar of Vibley - among many others. Makes us laugh every time.
@Daftasabroom

We used to drive past a business called Rank Hovis frequently which she inexplicably call Honk Gravis.

So I used to honk the horn.

DS2 had a massively spiky profile like this. He’s doing absolutely fine- he just cannot hear phonics. His visual memory is excellent so it’s rarely a problem. New words trip him up as he has no mechanism at all to decode, just the chunks of familiar words strung together.