Dyslexia Assessment Battery – Test Options (not exhaustive)
Component Skill
Norm-Referenced Test
Listening Comprehension
WIAT-III, WJ-III, or KTEA-II – Listening
Comprehension
Woodcock Language Proficiency BatteryListening Comp. subtest
DAB-3
Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS)
Reading Comprehension
WIAT III - Reading Comprehension (passage)
WJ-III – Passage Comprehension (cloze)
KTEA-II – Reading Comprehension (passage)
Word Recognition
WIAT III - Word Reading
WJ-III – Letter Word Identification
WIST -Word Identification and Spelling Test
KTEA-II - Letter and Word Recognition
WIAT III – Spelling
WJ-III Spelling
WIST
PAL-II Word Choice and within Writing subtests
KTEA-II - Spelling
Spelling
Decoding/Word Attack
WIAT III - Pseudoword Decoding
WJ-III Word Attack
PAL-II
Automaticity of Word
Reading/Decoding
TOWRE
KTEA-II – Timed Word Recognition; Timed
Nonsense Word Decoding
WIAT-III (percentile only): Word Reading Speed;
Pseudoword Decoding Speed
GORT-5 Rate, Accuracy, Fluency (passage)
WJ-III Reading Fluency (sentence level)
WIAT-III Oral Reading Fluency (passage)
Reading Fluency
Phonological Awareness
(note: CTOPP-2 comes out
Feb. 2013)
Written Expression
Naming Speed
(Rapid Automatic Naming)
Updated 1/2013 eea
Comprehensive Test of Phonological
Processing (CTOPP)
Phonological Awareness Test (PAT-2)
Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test – 3rd
Ed. (LAC-3)
KTEA-II
Test of Written Language (TOWL-4)
WJ-III. WIAT-III, or KTEA-II Written Expression
subtests
PAL-II Writing subtests
CTOPP – Give All 4 RAN subtests
CELF-4 Rapid Naming
RAN/RAS tests (by Wolf and Denckla)
PAL-II RAN and RAS subtests
KTEA-II --RAN
Criterion Referenced
Measure
Developmental Spelling
Analysis (DSA) from Word
Journeys
Words Their Way Spelling
Inventory
Wilson Assessment of
Decoding and Encoding
(WADE)
Decoding Skills Test (DST) –
Phonic Patterns Subtest
WADE
DIBELS and AIMSweb
(screening and progress
monitoring only)
Graded Reading Passages
Informal tasks – segmenting,
blending, manipulating, etc.
Story prompt (e.g., write for 5
minutes)
TN Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia
MTSU Box 397 Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Dyslexia Assessment Battery – Test Options (not exhaustive)
Tests for Younger Children (Ages 4 to 8) At-Risk
(Tests in above list may still apply)
Component Skill
Language Comprehension
Auditory Discrimination
Short-Term Auditory
Memory
Phonological Awareness
Naming Speed (Retrieval)
Norm-Referenced Test
CELF-4 or TOLD P:3 or
CASL (3 to 21)
WIAT-III Listening
Comprehension
TAPS-3 Auditory
Comprehension
TAPS-3 Auditory Reasoning
TAPS-3 Auditory Word
Discrimination
TAPS-3 Auditory Number Memory Forward & Reversed;
Word Memory; Sentence Memory
CTOPP - Phonological Memory
CTOPP-Phonological Awareness
Phonological Awareness Test (PAT)
Ages
4 to 8
CTOPP Rapid Naming Subtests (letters, digits, colors, and
objects)
5 to 24
5 to 19
4 to 13
4 to 13
4 to 13
4 to 13
5 to 24
5 to 24
4 to 9
*Caution: Test Norms are usually very generous for young children. Child may answer a few questions
right and still get an average score (e.g., WJ-III ACH). Average scores at this age do not necessarily
mean that the child does not have dyslexia.
Updated 1/2013 eea
TN Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia
MTSU Box 397 Murfreesboro, TN 37132