What is a screening and why administer it?
A dyslexia screening is an assessment utilized to identify students with reading difficulties and characteristics of dyslexia. This assessment evaluates reading skills that include phonological awareness, letter knowledge, decoding abilities, encoding, and rapid automatic naming.
If the results of the dyslexia screening show difficulties in the areas mentioned above, then a more comprehensive evaluation is required for a diagnosis of dyslexia.
In the 2025-2026 school year, California public schools started screening all students in kindergarten through grade two for risk of reading difficulties, including dyslexia. This must be completed annually
Basic Tools We Use
- Parent Interview
- School Record Review
- Phonological Awareness Screening Test (PAST)
- Sound to Symbol Test
- Long-Term Memory Retrieval Test
- Symbol to Sound Test
- Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP-2)
- Reading of Graded Word Lists
- Reading of High-Frequency Non-Phonetic Sight Words
- Reading of Phonetically Regular Nonsense Words
- Reading of Grade-Level Passage for Fluency and Accuracy (DIBELS-8)
- Written Expression
- Auditory Discrimination Test
- Test of Encoding Skills
