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Identifying dyslexia can be more complicated when other health or developmental conditions are also present. This article may help you map the shared territory, differentiating factors, and key questions to ask as you make your way through a comprehensive dyslexia evaluation.

Around the world, clinicians and educators identify dyslexia using widely varying methods, a recent international comparison shows (Sadusky et al., 2022). That diversity troubles some researchers. Without a consensus on how the condition is identified, are practitioners missing some diagnoses?

Because most ADHD research focuses on children, less is known about how symptom profiles change as people move into adolescence and adulthood. What do practitioners need to know about how ADHD looks and feels at different life stages?

Comprehensive Treatment-Informed Evaluation Frameworks can lead to reliable diagnoses. Perhaps more importantly, they can open a child’s world to you, leading to effective, highly individualized treatment plans.  

A robust, comprehensive assessment plan can help you ensure that students are developing skills in all five components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

In August 2022, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) published a revised position statement updating its recommendations for identifying students with specific learning disabilities (SLDs).

Identifying autism shouldn’t depend on a single assessment, no matter how thorough or precise that assessment is. A clear diagnosis—one your client can trust, and you can feel confident delivering—is the result of a comprehensive evaluation, generally involving a team of health professionals.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends universal anxiety screening for children and teens 8–18 years of age. Learn more about the rising rates of anxiety that prompted the recommendation.

The APA’s newly released guidelines explain how psychologists should choose, use, and interpret assessments for people with disabilities.

Decades of research have shown that strong social and emotional skills predict success in school, at work, and in personal relationships across a lifetime. With so much riding on this complex set of abilities, should students be screened for social and emotional competence as a matter of routine, just as they are for vision and hearing? For many experts, the answer is an emphatic “yes.” Here’s why.  

Pragmatic language differences have been linked to autism, ADHD, developmental language disorder, social communication disorder, and mental health difficulties (Andres-Roqueta et al.; Ciray et al.) For that reason, clinicians and educators often look for differences and deficits when they’re conducting a diagnostic evaluation.