Dyslexia Screening

By Eric Tridas, M.D.

Name:_____________________ Age: ___ School: ____________ Date: ______

History Screening (Begin using at the end of Pre-Kindergarten).

I. Infancy Yes No
Delayed language development

1. Single words by one year? p þ
2. Phrases by two years? p þ
3. Family history of language and/or reading problems? þ p

II. Preschool (End of pre-kindergarten)
1. Omission of sounds

Eliminates initial sound (i.e. “lephant” for elephant) þ p
Inverts sounds (i.e. aminal for animal) þ p

2. Insensitivity to rhymes
Memorizes nursery rhymes? p þ
Identifies words that rhyme with each other? p þ

3. Knows upper case alphabet p þ

III. Kindergarten (end of year)
1. Can name upper and lower case alphabet p þ
2. Knows the sounds of most letters p þ
3. Matches beginning sounds to words p þ
4. Pronounces beginning sounds of words p þ

IV. First Grade (End of year)
1. Separates and/or counts the sounds in a word p þ

2. Problems finding the right word to say þ p

Screening Test (2^nd Semester Kindergarten and 1^st Grade)

I. Alphabetic Principle (Use following words for items I. A, B, C)
get (3) tap (3) bent (4) open (4)

A. Names and gives sounds for beginning letters in words? p þ
B. Names and sounds ending letters (1^st) p þ
C. Tells how many sounds are in a word (1^st) p þ

II. Rhyming
A. Do food and walk rhyme (correct?) p þ
B. Do mat and cat rhyme? (correct?) p þ
C. Can say a short nursery rhyme? (correct?) p þ

III. Word Finding
A. Uses circumlocution (i.e., “the thing”) þ p
B. Substitutes words (i.e. volcano for tornado) þ p