The right tools for the journey ahead
Pearson has created a toolkit for the numerous professionals who serve students at risk for dyslexia — tools that help screen, deeply assess symptoms and underlying skills toward confirming a diagnosis, intervene effectively, and monitor performance at regular intervals. These tools are designed to be used as part of an overall process to identify dyslexia and plan intervention.
Pearson’s Dyslexia Toolkit
SCREEN
aimsweb®Plus - includes the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen™ , the Dyslexia Probability Calculator , and RAN measures
Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen Grades K-3 *Adolescent-Adult Form, and Corrections Form
* Dyslexia Probability Calculator
Wide Range Achievement Test (5th ed.; WRAT 5™ )
Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (3rd ed.; KTEA-3) Brief Form
ASSESS
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (4th ed.; WIAT-4)
Process Assessment of the Learner (2nd ed.; PAL-II) Diagnostics for the Reading and Writing
Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (3rd ed.; KTEA-3) Comprehensive Form
Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests (3rd ed.; WRMT-III)
Tests of intellectual functioning and oral language are also included!
* Indicates new additions to the toolkit
Your role in the dyslexia roadmap
When a team of general and special educators, reading specialists, educational diagnosticians, speech-language pathologists, and school psychologists work together using an interdisciplinary approach, the students’ academic success greatly improves. When all of these individuals — working together — have the right tools in hand, the possibilities are endless.
What is your role?
General Educators focus on the performance of the student in the classroom academically and behaviorally. They complete classroom-focused measures for assessment and need to implement the most efficient and efficacious instruction in the context of the curriculum. For dyslexia, one place to begin evaluating performance is at the spelling curriculum. For assessment, an integrated set of measures with the ability to measure progress saves time.
Screen: aimswebPlus; Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen; Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)
Assess: DRA3
Intervene: Spell-Links
Monitor: aimswebPlus
