Dyslexia screening - what to expect?

[RedskyAtnight]

This might be a "how long is a piece of string" question, but hoped others might be able to help.

DS has been referred to the Educational Psychologist attached to his school for a dyslexia screening. What exactly is this likely to be? I've tried googling but am just more confused as the answers seems to range from "testing at school is too basic and of no value" to "several hours of assessment".

Many thanks.

If it's EP from school. It shouldn't be too long. I would say 1 hour or so, if that. The relevance of it really depends on the EP, you could be lucky and have a good one. It's lucky enough that he gets to see an EP at school, it's a rare service these days.
At least you get a first assessment, and if you want to go further, you could always go private for a more thorough assessment.
What will matter is making sure the EP makes clear recommendations at to his life in the classroom in her report.
It will then allow you to make sure that whichever the recommendations are, they are implemented.

How old is your DS? Where do his difficulties appear?

So he had his screening today. He said it was about 20 minutes, it was all on the computer, involved listening, reading and interpreting questions and he found it really easy.

Anyone know what this might be?

The concerns we raised were all related to writing, and he wasn't actually asked to write anything!!
Obviously we will wait for the results, but I can't see how this would have flagged (or not) whether he had any difficulties. If it does come back with no spld identified, where do I go from here?

DDs dyslexia screening was called a Lucid Rapid Dyslexia screening. It covered phonological processing (word chopping), auditory sequential memory and phonic decoding skills (non words). DD was tested 3 times and all came back low. Turned out to be processing (different test flagged this up).

Thanks for response - we've got the report now and his was Lucid Rapid Dyslexia as well. He's come back low, which wasn't any great surprise as it was testing things he's good at!! I suspect he might be the same as your case, and he needs a different type of assessment to flag something else.