Literacy Evaluations

Helping you understand how your child reads, spells, and processes written language.

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When a child continues to struggle despite instruction or intervention, it can be difficult to know why. A comprehensive literacy evaluation helps identify patterns of strengths and needs, providing valuable information to guide instruction and determine appropriate next steps. 

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Is an Evaluation Right for Your Child?

A literacy evaluation may be helpful if your child:

  • Struggles to read accurately or fluently
  • Frequently guesses at words while reading
  • Struggles with spelling despite repeated practice
  • Avoids reading or becomes frustrated with reading and writing tasks
  • Has received intervention but continues to struggle
  • Performs well in other areas but reading and/or spelling seem unexpectedly difficult
  • Has made limited progress and you aren't sure why


Or maybe you're not exactly sure, but you feel like something isn't adding up!

What Does a Literacy Evaluation Look At?

Evaluations are individualized based on your child's age, history, and areas of concern. Assessments may include:

Phonological Processing

How your child recognizes, remembers, and works with the sounds within spoken words. 

Word Reading & Decoding

How accurately your child reads familiar words and uses sound-symbol knowledge to decode unfamiliar words.

Spelling & Encoding

How your child applies sound, syllable, and spelling patterns when writing words. 

Reading Fluency

Your child’s accuracy, rate, and automaticity when reading connected text. 

Reading Comprehension

How well your child understands and interprets what they read. 

Rapid Naming & Automaticity

How efficiently your child retrieves familiar verbal information, an important skill associated with reading fluency. 

Additional areas may be assessed when appropriate to develop a more complete picture of your child’s literacy profile. 

More Than a Score

 An evaluation should leave you with answers, not another stack of numbers.


Following the evaluation, parents receive:

  •  A comprehensive written report summarizing assessment results
  • A clear explanation of strengths and areas of need
  • An individualized literacy profile
  • Parent-friendly explanations of scores and findings
  • Recommendations for instruction and intervention
  • Suggested next steps for home and/or school
  • A follow-up meeting to review results and answer questions

Our goal is for you to leave the evaluation understanding not only how your child performed, but what the results mean and what to do next.

Can This Evaluation Diagnose Dyslexia?

Linked in Literacy provides comprehensive educational literacy evaluations designed to identify patterns of strengths and needs associated with reading and spelling difficulties, including characteristics commonly associated with dyslexia.


These evaluations are intended to guide educational planning, intervention, and next steps. They are not medical or psychological evaluations and do not provide a clinical diagnosis of dyslexia or other conditions.


When additional evaluation is warranted, families may be encouraged to seek assessment from an appropriately licensed professional.