QuickScan Online Dyslexia Screening for Individuals

Apart from indications of SpLD/dyslexia, QuickScan looks for signs of a wide range of neurodiverse issues, including a need for study support, maths difficulties, need for language support, learning confidence, fine motor skills (dyspraxia) and potential visual stress.

If you completed your PayPal purchase for the QuickScan online dyslexia screening questionnaire, but did not return to the Start page for any reason, please contact us for a new QuickScan passcode.

If you returned to the Start Page but didn’t start the programme for any reason, you should find that you will have been sent your passcode by email. If not then please contact us, otherwise return to the start page and enter your email and passcode to start your online dyslexia screening session.

QuickScan can only report on the answers you give it. In general though, if you answer the questions honestly it has proved to be accurate at identifying issues that are still affecting your performance.

However, it is occasionally possible that the online dyslexia screening questionnaire may not identify your dyslexia if you have successfully overcome many of your earlier difficulties.

We all absorb information through our senses. For people with dyslexia some of the filters through which learning is assimilated are erratic and it may take longer to process incoming data.

It may well be useful to find out which learning modality you are using predominantly at the present time by using QuickScan for online dyslexia screening. For example, many people with dyslexia are visual learners.

Since multi-sensory learning has always been accepted as the best way to acquire and retain information, then the chosen current preferred mode of learning can be seen as a starting point towards a better understanding and development of a more integrated approach.

Basing classroom teaching on individual learning styles preferences has generally been considered as not showing measurable improved outcomes.

However, the way we absorb information from around us is complex and multifaceted and not easy to categorise in simple terms. For example, linking information to previous knowledge, repetition, learning through doing things oneself, levels of motivation, being just a few.

Research shows that among people with dyslexia their intake of information through the senses is not uniform and can lead to difficulties. There is a greater overlap between the modes of learning and there are further fluctuations in how we perceive and assimilate information once it has been internalised that suggest this to be quite subjective and therefore difficult to define.

The link here is a video discussion that people with dyslexia might find very illuminating as it touches on some of these complexities.

However, the main teaching approach within the dyslexia field of making information as multi-sensory as possible has a well established foundation and, in our view, an understanding of the different learning modalities offers some useful insights to the learner rather than imposing limitations. A better level of self awareness as to how we learn is a useful tool.

The QuickScan online dyslexia screening questionnaire asks a number of numeracy related questions. Your report will state if there is a possibility that maths performance may have been adversely affected.

There is quite an overlap between SpLD/dyslexia, dyspraxia and dysgraphia and this is reflected in the QuickScan online dyslexia questionnaire.

However, QuickScan specifically focuses on fine motor skills (i.e. handwriting skills) and since it is not an exhaustive list of dyspraxia characteristics, gross motor function is beyond the scope of this questionnaire and would need to be checked separately.

Your QuickScan online dyslexia screening report will contain information relating to your current preferred learning mode – and you can use this as a starting point towards a more integrated method of learning.

It will show if you present any indicators of SpLD/dyslexia, fine motor dyspraxia (problems with handwriting), numeracy issues, possible need for study and language support, as well as any signs of visual stress.

As long as you have a basic working knowledge of English you will be able to understand and respond to the online dyslexia screening questions.

The questions are also available in audio, which may help with understanding them more easily.

The QuickScan online dyslexia screening questionnaire is designed to be accessible for partially sighted and blind users. It has full audio delivery for the questions and has keyboard operation available using the known “home” keys and the spacebar.

The QuickScan online dyslexia screening questionnaire should be completed in a single sitting and usually takes around 10-15 minutes.

If it takes significantly longer than that, this may be an indication of literacy issues or speed of processing difficulties. Neither of these issues alone is a conclusive indication of SpLD/dyslexia but they may well be contributing factors.

With the QuickScan online dyslexia screening questionnaire, you can select the screen background colour that best suits you, as well as the size of font when you start doing the online dyslexia screening questionnaire.

There are a number of visual issues that may affect reading fluency (basic visual short and long sightedness need to be ruled out as a first step), but they could also be related to visual stress which is an over sensitivity to the contrast between the font colour and the background colour.

Black printed text on white paper is one of the more problematic combinations for a person with visual stress.

Sometimes the use of coloured overlays or a change of screen colour on computer screens can make a huge difference – with eye strain and headaches reportedly being reduced and reading fluency improved.

The QuickScan online dyslexia screening questionnaire is not accepted on its own for exam boards or by funding bodies, but it does offer a starting point for identifying individual needs.

If there are any indicators of SpLD/dyslexia, we recommend that you use the QuickScreen dyslexia test (if you aged 17+) to explore these further and put together relevant background information to present to your support team.

If you are under 17 years of age, you will find that many organisations and workplaces do, however, use QuickScan as a starting point for putting “reasonable adjustments” in place.