The Reading Screening web site was created to empower parents, teachers, and other professionals to have a broader understanding of reading, reading disabilities, phonological processing, and dyslexia. It is hoped that the Reading Screening site will be very useful to parents, teachers, and professionals as they try to more fully understand the nature of their child’s, student’s, or client’s reading difficulties.

At the present time, 15% to 20% of our nation’s children experience reading problems or dyslexia. The Reading Screening web site helps with the first step of understanding reading difficulties. That is, to help parents, teachers, and other professionals understand the nature of their child’s, student’s, or client’s reading difficulties. Once these reading difficulties can be identified from this on-line reading assessment, a reading intervention can be crafted. The Reading Screening site also provides a link to the Center for the Assessment and Remediation of Reading Difficulties’ (CARRD) Help Area.

The Reading Screening’s Summary of Results Report provides a comprehensive, specific, and professional reading assessment. No special training is necessary for the parent, teacher, or professional to perform the reading assessment. All of the instructions are available on each page of the Reading Screening. It is hoped that the parent can take the results of the reading assessment to his or her student’s school so that school officials will know precisely the nature of the reading difficulty. The child’s reading instruction can then be more appropriately created to meet the child’s reading instruction needs.

If the results suggest that the child is at-risk of having reading difficulties or dyslexia, or if the child is currently experiencing reading difficulties or dyslexia, there is a link to the CARRD Help Area. The CARRD’s Help Area provides information regarding the results of the Reading Screening, how to interpret the results of the Reading Screening, information concerning reading disabilities, dyslexia, the role phonological processing plays in reading assessment and reading instruction, how to motivate children who are poor readers, and what the parent, teacher, or professional can do to provide appropriate reading instruction for the child who might be experiencing reading difficulties or dyslexia.