Critical insights and actionable steps.
A comprehensive picture of your child’s literacy, built from one-on-one assessment sessions with your child, current and past school documentation, and parent and child input.
- What's included
- Student assessment sessions based on your child’s comfort and pace, a review of school documentation, and a parent session if needed or requested.
- What you get
- A comprehensive written report detailing your child’s current reading and writing development, with recommendations for support at school and at home.Optional: a plan for focused intervention with Corla Literacy.
- Who it's for
- Students from Kindergarten through Grade 12.
This is not a psycho-educational assessment, and it does not replace one.
A psycho-educational assessment is carried out by a registered psychologist and includes cognitive testing. What we offer is a literacy assessment: a detailed picture of your child's reading and writing. For many families that is enough to act on. For others it is a useful first step, and it will tell you whether a full psycho-educational assessment is worth pursuing.
It pinpoints exactly where the struggle is.
Reading and writing are complex skills, and the visible problem is often not the real one. A child who struggles with writing may actually be held up by phonics, by motor skills, or by trouble retrieving the right word. The assessment separates these out, so we can see whether the difficulty lies in sounding out words, recognising familiar words quickly, reading speed, understanding what was read, handwriting speed, spelling, or building sentences. It also screens for the patterns associated with dyslexia and dysgraphia. If the results suggest a full psycho-educational assessment would help, that is worth knowing early, and we're happy to provide a starting point list of psychologists in Vancouver.
It can get your child support at school without a formal designation.
In B.C. a student does not need an official Ministry of Education designation to receive targeted support in the classroom. School teams write better Individual Education Plans and Student Support Plans when they have concrete data to work from, and our report gives them standardized, Canadian-normed scores they can act on. Results may justify meaningful, low-barrier accommodations well before a diagnosis.
It gives whoever teaches your child a clear plan.
Instead of generalized "reading practice," the report points to specific skill areas. If sounding out unfamiliar words is the weak point, your child needs structured, systematic phonics. If they read words accurately but don't absorb what they've read, they need vocabulary and language comprehension instead. Either way, tutors and school interventionists know where to start rather than guessing.
It protects your child's sense of themselves.
Children notice when reading or writing feels harder for them than for the people around them, and by Grade 3 many have started to draw their own conclusions about what that means. Clear results give everyone a kinder and more accurate story: your child is working just as hard as their classmates, there are particular skills they haven’t been taught yet, and those skills can absolutely be learned.