Learning Assessments

Our allied health team provides Learning Assessments for a variety of Specific Learning Disorders. If you are concerned that your child might have a learning disorder, we recommend booking in for a full assessment.

Our learning assessments look for each of the Specific Learning Disorders:

Learning Assessments: Dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia.

Specific Learning Disorder with Impairment in Reading

Also known as dyslexia, signs your child may have this SLD include:

• Reading well below their expected level for their age.
• Problems processing and understanding what they hear.
• Difficulty finding the right word or forming answers to questions.
• Difficulty remembering the sequence of things.
• Difficulty seeing (and occasionally hearing) similarities and differences in letters or words.
• Inability to sound out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word.
• Problems with spelling.
• Spending an unusually long-time completing reading or writing tasks.
• Avoiding activities that involved reading.

Specific Learning Disorder with Impairment in Written Expression

Also known as dysgraphia, signs your child may have this SLD include:

• Cramped grip which can lead to a sore hand.
• Difficult spacing things out on paper or within margins (poor spatial planning).
• Frequent erasing.
• Inconsistency in letter and word spacing.
• Poor spelling, including unfinished words or missing words or letters.
• Unusual wrist, body, or paper position while writing.

Specific Learning Disorder with Impairment in Mathematics

Also known as dyscalculia, signs your child may have this SLD include:

• Has trouble in understanding concepts of place value, and quantity, number lines.
• Positive and negative value, carrying and borrowing.
• Difficulty in understanding and completing word problems.
• Difficulty in sequencing information and/or events.
• Difficulty using steps involved in mathematics operations.
• Difficulty understanding fractions.
• Finds making change and handling money challenging.
• Difficulty in recognising patterns when adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.
• Experiences difficulty putting language to math processes.
• Has difficulty understanding concepts related to time such as days, weeks, months, seasons, quarters, etc.
• Exhibits difficulty organising problems on the page, keeping numbers lined up, and following through on long division problems.

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