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Should I follow this up with a formal assessment?

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AhFiddledeedee · 11/01/2021 12:37

One of my DC struggles in school and they have recently had a GL assessment - Dyslexia portfolio screening.

It has flagged up some areas of strengths and weakness.

The result on ipsative score says areas are between -1.4 (spelling) to +1.8 (forward digit recall) everything else is somewhere inbetween.

In the 13 categories that were assessed they are below the 50th national percentile in 8 of them. Worst being the 7th percentile.

School have been helpful, but they say it is up to me if I want to pay for a private assessment which will cost £300.

Obviously I cant do one at the moment.

Can anyone recommend whether this is worth taking further and having a formal assessment done?

I'm happy to do it, but I dont want to spend £300 if its unnecessary!

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