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Academic Skills Assessments

An Academic Skills Assessment will help identify individual learning strengths and weaknesses to understand your child’s literacy and/or numeracy development, and their support needs. On completion of the assessment, you are provided with a report that outlines which areas the school and/or tutor should target along with recommended strategies and resources to support them.

Conducted by an experienced Special Education teacher.

  • Assesses a student’s skill development and performance across literacy and/or numeracy
  • Provides recommendations and strategies that can be used by schools, parents and tutors to support the student in their education.


Become a member and receive a 5% discount on your assessment fee.

An Academic Skills Assessment will not provide a diagnosis of a specific learning difficulty (Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dysgraphia). Only a psychologist can provide this diagnosis. See SPELD SA Psychological Assessment service.


How can I make an appointment?

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Literacy Assessment

Cost: $600

  • Consists of observation, discussion, and a series of short screens and tests, involving verbal, auditory and hands-on activities.
  • Skills assessed include articulation, auditory discrimination, phonemic awareness, sound and letter knowledge, reading, spelling, writing and handwriting.
  • 2-Hour testing session with the child.
  • Written Assessment & Recommendations Report.
  • Feedback sessions with the parent the week after the training session.

Numeracy Assessment

Cost $600

  • A series of hands-on tasks look at the child’s understanding of ‘number’, examining their thinking processes and strategies applied when solving number-related problems.
  • Skills assessed include number, counting, subitising, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
  • 2-Hour testing session with the child.
  • Written Assessment & Recommendations Report.
  • Feedback session with the parent the week after the testing session.

Combined Literacy & Numeracy Assessment

Cost $900

  • A joint review will be conducted over two sessions.
  • 3-3½ hour of testing with the child.
  • Written Assessment & Recommendations Report.
  • Feedback session with the parent the week after the testing session.

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For over 50 years we have been delivering a range of services to the community including educational training, parent workshops, educational consultations, psychological assessments, tutoring, literacy intervention programs and extensive resources through our library and bookshop.

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