• Frequently Asked Questions
• IDA Fact Sheets On Dyslexia and Related Language-Based Learning Differences
• Evaluation for Dyslexia

The Language & Learning Clinic, PLLC uses a component model for evaluating reading and written language, assessing the student's skills in each of these areas:

1. speech sound awareness and memory
2. knowledge of letter symbols and word parts and fluency of their use
   
3. accuracy and fluency of single word reading
4. vocabulary
5. listening comprehension
6. sentence processing
7. oral and written expression (including spelling, sentence formulation & conventions and discourse organization)
   

If you have a child who is a struggling reader, your family is not alone. Learning to read is a challenge for almost 40 percent of kids, and an even bigger challenge for their parents. 

Empowering Parents, a PBS special hosted by Al Roker, visits schools in Huntingtown, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon, to help families identify early signs of reading problems and find ideas for getting their kids the help and support they need to succeed at reading.  [To view this video on your computer you'll need a high speed Internet connection.View the video}