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Risks and Probabilities Assessment Practice Framework Based on the Delphi Dyslexia Study 2025

The Delphi Dyslexia Study papers have now been published. This briefing paper gives links to the papers and the Delphi Dyslexia definition

This guidance is aimed at assessors completing a full diagnostic assessment report for Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) in mathematics leading to a potential diagnosis.

Additional guidance and explanatory detail is provided throughout in the form of comment boxes, allowing assessors immediate access to further information and clarification without needing to consult a separate document.

This document is a copy of the additional guidance and explanatory detail which appear in comment boxes in the SASC Guidance on Assessment of Mathematics Difficulties and Dyscalculia 2025.

This is the required report format for a diagnostic assessment for Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs).

This report format was updated by the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC) in May 2025. It can be used from the date of publication and its use will be mandatory from January 1st 2027.

Additional guidance and explanatory detail is provided throughout in numbered comment boxes, allowing assessors immediate access to further information and clarification.

Two other document downloads are also available: the report format minus the guidance in comments, and the additional guidance comments collected together as a separate document.

This is the required report format for a diagnostic assessment for Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs).

This report format was updated by the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC) in May 2025. It can be used from the date of publication and its use will be mandatory from January 1st 2027.

This version of the report format should be read in conjunction with ‘Guidance notes to accompany SASC Report Format 2025’, available in a separate document which can be accessed from SASC Downloads.

Additional guidance notes and explanatory detail are signalled by [AG] and consecutive numbering used in the Guidance Notes document.

The additional guidance comments for the SASC 2025 Report Format are collected together here as a separate document to provide additional accessibility. The additional guidance reference numbering (AG#) follows the 2025 report format document.

This document presents an update to the previous guidance on visual difficulties, introduced in 2018.