Assessment is an important part of understanding your child’s literacy needs and planning effective intervention.

Ongoing Assessment Within Intervention

Assessment is built into regular intervention sessions. This helps identify current skill levels, monitor progress and determine the areas that require targeted teaching.

Depending on your child’s needs, this may include assessment of:

• phonological and phonemic awareness

• decoding and word reading

• reading accuracy and fluency

• reading comprehension

• spelling

• written expression

• vocabulary and other relevant literacy skills

These assessments help ensure teaching remains focused, responsive and appropriate to your child’s progress.

Comprehensive Literacy Assessment & Report

For families seeking a more detailed understanding of their child’s literacy profile, a comprehensive assessment can also be arranged at an additional cost.

This involves a broader assessment of literacy skills and results in a written report outlining:

• your child’s areas of strength

• areas requiring support

• assessment findings and interpretation

• recommended priorities for intervention

• practical recommendations for home and school

A comprehensive assessment may be helpful when families would like a detailed learning profile, written documentation to share with their child’s school or other professionals, or clearer guidance about appropriate next steps.

For younger learners, assessment places particular emphasis on the foundational oral language, phonological awareness and early decoding skills that underpin later literacy development.

A comprehensive assessment can be discussed during your initial consultation if you would like a more detailed understanding of your child’s literacy profile.

Individual intervention is designed around your child’s assessed needs and may focus on reading, spelling and written expression.

Teaching is explicit, systematic and evidence-based, with skills introduced in a carefully sequenced way and practised until they become increasingly secure.

Instruction is adjusted over time in response to your child’s progress, rather than following a one-size-fits-all program.

Progress is monitored regularly so that intervention remains focused, responsive and appropriately challenging.

Parents are kept informed about areas of focus and progress, and where appropriate, collaboration with classroom teachers or other professionals can help support consistency across settings.