Photo of dyslexia screen - not sure of explanation

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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.

Is this a screening done in school?

I would definitely take the child for a full assessment by someone qualified- to me that profile definitely shows issues.

Id also consider asd and adhd- there is something there interfering with her processing.

Also look into Irlens syndrome.

Sounds like my DD p, q, b and d were all the same. h and y the same. e and g the same. s and 5 the same. 6 and 9 the same. 'no' and 'on' the same. Would read a simple 'one word a page' book upside down just as well (or badly) as the right way up. She was terribly frustrated by it but pretty much figured it out herself eventually when it got to reading whole words in context. She was also righthanded and left eyed which made hand eye co-ordination difficult. And as you described was very quiet, shy wouldn't talk to people, I had to take in a tape of her talking to prove that she could in infants. An absolute chatterbox at home, she did get better but was always pretty quiet at school. She did get some extra lessons that were meant to help, but she hated that and I'm not sure it did any good.

But she got 8 A* at GCSE, good A levels and a degree. Never got extra time in any exams, she never told me that she should have been allowed extra time she didn't want to be treated differently.

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Yes - some sort of screening tool done in school.

Her mum had a very dark red lens in non prescription glasses when she was at high school - until someone called her Captain Sensible and then she refused to wear them. (Which was Irlen syndrome.). There were very few places which tested for this at the time.

DGD uses a dark green overlay at school.

She's had hearing and eye tests in the last six months. Her glasses are +3.75.

She's waiting to hear about an ASD assessment.

I've not seen any of these kinds of results before - they've not been explained to my daughter.

Poor working memory and slow processing speed are specific learning disabilities that often go hand-in-hand with dyslexia or other SENs. What they mean is that your DD processes things more slowly than most kids so she needs more thinking time during learning and also that she will find it hard to hold information in her head. For instance, if you give her a multi-part instruction, she may only remember one part of it, or if she's been told to write down a list of things, she may only remember some, rather than all of them. If you don't understand the report does the school have a SENCo who can interpret it for you?

In my experience (my son has asd/adhd/dyslexia and dyspraxia)- these screening tools are not very accurate and school staff don’t really understand them themselves.

They told me my son wasn’t dyslexic when I was sure he was and showed me one of those with the same spiky type profile as the one you posted- I ignored them and took him to a specialist who said he is very definitely dyslexic.

I would not say that these results as they stand are indicative of any real issues. The scores that are below average could be as a result of inadequate explanations on behalf of the assessor, for example it’s unusual for someone to score lower on the forward digit span than the backward digit span, because forwards is easier. So they could have misunderstood but then got the idea for the backwards span assessment. As your other posts state, she shows other behaviours which might account for the scores.
The assessment is a screening of risk. It isn’t diagnostic. I would look at working on number recognition of 2 digit numbers, so she automatically knows that the first digit is spoken first, maybe using a place value grid.
I would also say that Irlens is considered by many professionals to be an unproven syndrome - there’s lots of research to support this view, whilst the research evidence available to support the view that it’s a real thing is mainly anecdotal.

Also consider selective mutism.

If mum's autistic I wouldn't be at all surprised if she is too.

It takes a long while to sort out as some things look very similar and overlap.

Her mum was selective mute throughout school/college.

She begins talking to the teacher towards the end of the school year (since nursery school) and then of course, teachers change for the autumn term.

She talked very early, talks incessantly at home, I would say higher than average vocabulary because she devours (obsessed) books. Her brothers aged 3 and 4 have delayed speech - the older one is unintelligible but attempts to talk and has a few different types of stammer. He has a very restricted diet and has nutritional drinks prescribed. Her younger brother seems to understand but does not attempt to talk. He has epilepsy. They are all waiting for ASD assessments.