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Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties

If further interventions and strategies fail to improve the situation and the child’s
progress, and the child needs more support than the school is able to provide, the
parents can request an Education and Health Care Plan (EHC). If the child is aged
16 to 25, they can request an EHC themselves. This plan will set out the additional
support the child needs. This process is called a graduated approach.

Private assessments can also be arranged with a range of providers and
national charities.

Dyslexia in adults

Professionals specialising in adult dyslexia include chartered psychologists and
occasionally clinical psychologists. These professionals, together with occupational
therapists, can also identify co-occurring conditions such as DCD, ADHD and
dyscalculia.

Checklists and screening tests are short tests that can be used to identify the
probability of dyslexic difficulties for any age group. They are not a diagnosis and
no screening test is 100% reliable in what it might predict; there may be a few false
positives or false negatives.

A Activity 2: Dyslexia checklist

Follow the link below and complete the checklist for dyslexic
adults designed by the British Dyslexia Association.

Note down your score in the space provided.
http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/common/ckeditor/filemanager/
userfiles/Adult-Checklist.pdf

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