Dyslexia Test

Diagnosis is an important step for any illness, disease or condition. In some cases, a diagnosis can shed some insight into the areas requiring medical treatment. Surgeries or drugs may be prescribed to essentially cure a person. In other cases, the diagnosis may simply help people understand what they’re up against and how to manage, as there are no miraculous treatments available. With regard to an adult learning disability, a dyslexia test and diagnosis can propel adults forward, as they learn different tricks and techniques to get past the disability. Currently, there is no known treatment that addresses the parts of the brain that are affected in dyslexia.

Some of the current tests for dyslexia include the Beery Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, Bender Gestalt Test of Visual Motor Perception, Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test, Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC), Kaufman Tests of Educational Achievement (KTEA), Motor-Free Visual Perception Test, Peabody Individual Achievement Tests (PIAT), Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language (TACL), Test of Auditory Perception (TAPS), Test of Visual Perception (TVPS), Visual Aural Digit Span Test (VADS), Wechsler Individual Achievement Tests (WIAT, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III) and the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery test. To gather the full picture, doctors and psychologists usually try as many of these tests as they can to assess adult learning disabilities. This is called a “multi-approach” to diagnosis. In addition to these psychoanalytical tests, medical doctors can now perform brain scans using MRI and PET imaging to detect brain anomalies.

Sometimes an adult dyslexia test may reveal other adult learning disabilities. Nonverbal learning disabilities are classified under a different neurological disorder, which shows problems with organization, evaluating and visual-spatial processing. With an auditory or visual processing disorder, a person may see or hear perfectly fine but have a difficult time deciphering. Dysgraphia is a writing disability where a person may be unable to write in cursive, form certain letters or include proper spacing. With dyscalculia, a person may be unable to solve the simplest mathematical problems or understand the most basic math concepts. ADHD anxiety may make a person feel distracted, excitable and unable to concentrate long enough to understand or store information properly.

A dyslexia test is practical if people have family members who were dyslexic, if they have trouble transcribing numbers, if they make frequent errors in writing or spelling and if they must read very slowly in order to comprehend. Individuals may be able to find a free dyslexia test online. While a comprehensive, in-depth assessment cannot be obtained online for free, there are sites that may prompt you to see a psychoanalyst or neurological doctor. To start, individuals may visit www.overcoming-dyslexia.com/adult_dyslexia_test.html, www.the-dyslexia-center.com/dyslexia-test.php or www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/adultchecklist.html.

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