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Reading Evaluation — Mia

Reader: Mia Grade: 2 (Age 7) Date: May 24, 2026 Duration: 16 minutes
Moderate Risk Specialist review recommended.

Multiple patterns associated with dyslexia were observed — particularly in phonemic awareness, complex vowel decoding, and rapid letter naming. Foundational letter and consonant knowledge is strong; the gaps cluster around the skills most directly linked to early reading difficulty.

Low risk Moderate High risk
Lower risk = fewer signs of dyslexia.
68%
Phonics overall
below grade-2 expectation
42
Words / minute
grade-2 norm: 72
81%
Reading accuracy
connected passages
Section I i.

Letters, Sounds & Word Reading

Mia's performance across letter knowledge, vowel patterns, and word decoding. Strong on letter naming and consonant sounds — clear gaps on vowel patterns and complex spellings.

Letter knowledge · 3 subtests
Uppercase letters96% · 25/26
Naming the 26 uppercase letters: A, B, C…
Lowercase letters92% · 24/26
Naming the 26 lowercase letters: a, b, c…
Consonant sounds86% · 18/21
The sounds consonants make on their own: "b", "d", "s"…
Vowel patterns · 4 subtests
Vowel sounds (short)60% · 3/5
Short sounds the five vowels make: a, e, i, o, u.
Missed: i, e
R-controlled vowels33% · 2/6
When "r" changes the vowel — car, her, bird.
Missed: her, bird, curl, burn
Long vowels43% · 3/7
Vowels that "say their own name" — cake, bike, rope.
Missed: cape, tine, cone, flute
Variant vowels25% · 1/4
Vowel combos with unpredictable sounds — moon vs. book, toy, hawk.
Missed: moon, boy, jaw
Word reading · 4 subtests
Short vowel words (CVC)70% · 7/10
Three-letter words with a short vowel in the middle — cat, pen, pig.
Missed: zup — heard "zip", kif, meb
Consonant blends60% · 6/10
Two consonants blended but each still heard — st-op, bl-ue, fr-og.
Digraphs50% · 4/8
Two letters making a single new sound — shoe, chin, that.
Low-frequency spellings20% · 1/5
Trickier patterns — phone, knee, gnat.
Section II ii.

Phonemic Awareness

The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. One of the strongest research-backed predictors of reading difficulty. Mia shows clear weakness here — particularly on sound segmentation and deletion tasks.

First Sound Isolation80% · 4/5
Hearing the first sound in a spoken word (e.g., /k/ in "cat").
Sound Blending60% · 3/5
Putting separate sounds together to make a word (/f/ /ɪ/ /ʃ/ → "fish").
Missed: /t/ /e/ /n/ → said "tan", /s/ /i/ /t/ → said "set"
Counting Sounds (Segmentation)40% · 2/5
Counting the individual sounds inside a spoken word.
Missed: "frog" (said 3, actual 4), "stop" (said 3, actual 4), "play" (said 4, actual 3)
Dropping a Sound (Deletion)20% · 1/5
Saying a word with one sound removed ("cat" without /k/ → "at").
Missed: fish → ish, ball → all, sun → un, top → op

Why this matters: Weak phonemic awareness — particularly segmentation and deletion — is the single strongest early-grade signal of dyslexia in the research literature. This is the area most likely to warrant specialist evaluation.

Section III iii.

Rapid Letter Naming

How quickly Mia can name a chart of familiar letters. Slow naming speed — even with high accuracy — is a documented dyslexia indicator known as the "double deficit" pattern when paired with phonemic awareness weakness.

1.4letters / sec
24 / 25 letters named correctly. Naming was slow, with multiple self-corrections and brief hesitations on visually similar letters (b, d, p).
Grade-2 expectation: ≥ 1.8 letters/sec. Mia is approximately 22% below benchmark.
Section IV iv.

Connected Reading (Passage Fluency)

Reading two short grade-appropriate passages aloud. Scored as words-correct-per-minute (WCPM) and accuracy, using published Hasbrouck & Tindal benchmarks.

Reading rate
42WCPM
Grade-2 norm: 72 WCPM — Mia is in the 16th percentile.
Reading accuracy
81%
Below the 95% accuracy threshold for independent reading.

Reading was hesitant, with frequent letter-by-letter sounding-out on multisyllabic words. Common substitutions included reading "horse" as "house" and "play" as "pay" — patterns consistent with vowel and digraph weakness identified above.

Section V v.

Recommended Next Steps

Based on the patterns above, here is what we suggest — in order of priority. Save or print this report and bring it to the relevant professional.

1

Pursue a formal evaluation

The combination of weak phonemic awareness, slow rapid naming, and below-grade reading rate is a research-recognized profile that warrants a comprehensive evaluation by a licensed reading specialist, educational psychologist, or neuropsychologist. This is the only path to a formal dyslexia diagnosis. Typical costs and how to find one →

2

Share this report with Mia's school

Under federal law (IDEA), public schools are required to respond in writing to parent requests for evaluation. Print this report (use the button at the top) and submit it with a written request to your school's special education coordinator. How to make the request →

3

Begin targeted practice in the weakest areas

While you wait for specialist follow-up, structured daily practice with a research-aligned phonics program (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, or LiPS) targeting Mia's specific gaps — long vowels, r-controlled vowels, and phonemic awareness — can begin shifting outcomes. Avoid generic reading apps that don't directly teach phonics.

4

Re-evaluate in 3–6 months

Reading skills change as instruction takes hold. Re-running this evaluation in 3–6 months shows whether intervention is working — or whether more intensive support is needed.

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Reading evaluation report

Reading Evaluation — Ben

Reader: Ben Reading level: Adult Date: May 24, 2026 Duration: 18 minutes
Moderate Risk Specialist follow-up recommended.

Multiple patterns consistent with adult dyslexia were observed — particularly in phonemic awareness, irregular-spelling decoding, and reading fluency. Ben's letter and high-frequency word knowledge is at the expected adult ceiling; the gaps cluster around the precision and speed measures most diagnostic of compensated adult dyslexia.

Low risk Moderate High risk
Lower risk = fewer signs of dyslexia.
78%
Word decoding
below adult-reader ceiling
145
Words / minute
adult norm: ~220 WCPM
92%
Reading accuracy
connected passages
Section I i.

Word Decoding

Ben's accuracy across consonant blends, digraphs, and irregular spelling patterns. The adult evaluation skips early-grade letter sections (ceiling-effect) and starts at decoding level. Performance is strong on regular patterns but drops sharply on irregular and low-frequency spellings — a signature compensated-dyslexia pattern.

Regular patterns · 2 subtests
Consonant blends92% · 12/13
Two consonants blended but each still heard — st-op, bl-ue, fr-og, sc-ratch.
Digraphs88% · 7/8
Two letters making a single new sound — shoe, chin, that, phone.
Irregular & complex patterns · 3 subtests
R-controlled vowels75% · 6/8
When "r" changes the vowel — her, bird, curl, pearl.
Misread: pearl — read as "peral", squirm
Variant vowels60% · 6/10
Vowel combos with unpredictable sounds — thought, neighbor, build.
Misread: thought, neighbor, build, caught
Low-frequency spellings40% · 2/5
Words with silent or unusual letters — pharynx, gnaw, mnemonic.
Misread: pharynx, mnemonic, cnidarian
Section II ii.

Phonemic Awareness

The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words. The most diagnostically powerful adult dyslexia measure — adult-level stimuli use multisyllabic words and consonant clusters to push past the compensation strategies most adults have developed. Ben shows clear weakness on segmentation and cluster-deletion tasks.

First Phoneme Isolation100% · 5/5
Identifying the first phoneme of a multisyllabic word ("philosophy" → /f/).
Phoneme Blending60% · 3/5
Blending separate phonemes into a multisyllabic target word (/s/ /p/ /l/ /ɪ/ /t/ → "split").
Missed: /θ/ /r/ /ʌ/ /s/ /t/ → said "trust", /s/ /t/ /r/ /ɪ/ /k/ /t/ → said "strict" (close, but lost /r/)
Phoneme Counting (Segmentation)60% · 3/5
Counting individual phonemes in a multisyllabic word — adult stimuli include consonant clusters.
Missed: "strict" (said 5, actual 6), "blends" (said 5, actual 6)
Cluster Deletion40% · 2/5
Saying a word with one phoneme removed from inside a consonant cluster ("splash" without /s/ → "plash").
Missed: frost → fost, stripe → sripe, scratch → scatch
Phoneme Substitution60% · 3/5
Replacing one phoneme in a word ("trip" with /t/ → /g/ becomes "grip").

Why this matters: Adults who developed compensation strategies often score normally on most reading measures but show persistent weakness on phoneme manipulation under time pressure. Cluster deletion is the single most discriminating adult-dyslexia task — well-validated for adults across the literature.

Section III iii.

Rapid Digit Naming

How quickly Ben can name a chart of familiar digits. Slow rapid naming in adults — even with full accuracy — is a documented dyslexia indicator known as the "double deficit" pattern when paired with phonemic awareness weakness.

2.2digits / sec
25 / 25 digits named correctly. Accuracy was perfect, but pacing was uneven with multiple micro-hesitations on transitions between digit lines.
Adult expectation: ≥ 3.0 digits/sec. Ben is approximately 27% below benchmark — combined with the PA findings above, this is the classic adult-dyslexia double deficit.
Section IV iv.

Connected Reading (Passage Fluency)

Reading two adult-level passages aloud. Scored as words-correct-per-minute (WCPM) and accuracy, against adult fluency norms.

Reading rate
145WCPM
Adult expected range: 200–250 WCPM — Ben is approximately 1.2 SD below the mean.
Reading accuracy
92%
Below the 98% accuracy threshold for adult independent reading.

Reading was deliberate, with noticeable slowdown on multisyllabic and irregularly-spelled words. Common substitutions included reading "cartographers" as "cartographs" and "contentious" as "continuous" — patterns consistent with the irregular-spelling and PA weaknesses identified above.

Section V v.

Recommended Next Steps

Based on the patterns above, here is what we suggest — in order of priority. Save or print this report and bring it to the relevant professional.

1

Pursue a formal diagnostic evaluation

The combination of weak phoneme manipulation, slow rapid naming, and below-norm reading fluency is a research-recognized adult-dyslexia profile that warrants a comprehensive evaluation by a neuropsychologist or licensed educational psychologist who works with adults. A formal diagnosis is the gateway to legal accommodations under the ADA at work and Section 504 in higher education.

2

Explore workplace and academic accommodations

With a formal diagnosis, adults are protected by the ADA (US) and equivalent laws elsewhere. Common accommodations include extended time on written tasks, text-to-speech tools, reduced reading load for high-volume roles, and quiet workspaces for sustained reading. A reasonable starting point is a conversation with HR or a disability services office, with this report as supporting evidence.

3

Targeted decoding practice

Structured-literacy programs designed for adults — Wilson Reading System, Lindamood-Bell LiPS, or Barton — can meaningfully improve decoding precision and fluency even in adulthood. Programs marketed for kids are not appropriate; look specifically for "adult learner" or "remedial" tracks.

4

Adopt assistive-reading tools day-to-day

Even before targeted intervention, text-to-speech tools (built into iOS, macOS, Windows, and most browsers), audiobook subscriptions, and AI summarizers reduce the daily cognitive cost of reading-heavy work. These aren't a workaround for the underlying issue — they free up bandwidth for the work itself.

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