Evidence-Based Results Through Expert Dyslexia Screening Services
“If children can’t learn the way we teach, then we have to teach the way they learn”
– Ignacio Estrada
The Science of Reading: Why Our Screening & Methodology Works
Dyslexia screening serves as the first diagnostic step within the research-based Science of Reading framework. Dyslexia is usually characterized by difficulties with word recognition, poor spelling, and decoding abilities. These underlying challenges stem from a core deficit in the phonological component of language.
As dyslexia is fundamentally a problem with phonological processing, also known as the ability to recognize and manipulate sounds in words, our professional screening services are designed to evaluate these processing metrics.
Our testing assesses an individual’s phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming skills (the capacity to quickly name letters, numbers, colors, or objects) to construct a complete, unique learning profile. Once these phonological processing deficits and specific learning needs are identified, the diagnostic data drives our intensive intervention strategies.
We use the Orton-Gillingham approach, implementing multisensory learning techniques that simultaneously engage auditory, visual, and kinesthetic pathways. By forcing these neural pathways to work together, our methodology actively helps rewire the language centers of the brain.
Structured Literacy vs. Guessing: Why We Are Better Than General Tutoring
Traditional school systems and standard tutoring centers rely on balanced literacy and integrated language arts models. These frameworks encourage struggling students to use visual memory and guess unknown words based on pictures, illustration cues, or contextual evidence and prediction.
For a child with dyslexia, these guessing habits are ineffective because they mask underlying phonological processing deficits and let students navigate around the text rather than decode it.
While general tutoring options provide surface-level homework help, Reading With Results delivers intensive 1:1 Structured Literacy intervention. General interventions will fail a dyslexic learner if they do not use the focused environment that is required to suppress visual memory guessing.
Our professional screenings pinpoint the root of a child’s processing struggles. Following screening, our 1:1 tutoring uses tools like color-coded tiles and targeted “nonsense” words to strip away a child’s ability to guess. This format forces the intelligent dyslexic mind to stop memorizing word shapes and instead master the logical, orthographic structure of the English phonetic code.
The Roadmap to Mastery: A Proven Progression, Not a Quick Fix
A professional screening at Reading With Results is not a quick fix; it is the gateway to a dedicated, long-term roadmap toward complete reading and writing mastery. We provide families with two screening paths to start this educational journey:
- Screening Option #1 (Consultation only, $600.00): This targeted path aims to determine if your child fits the clinical dyslexia profile. It includes an in-depth administrative records review, an examination of current classroom schoolwork samples, and a face-to-face personal interview with parents to get informed recommendations for tutoring and accommodations.
- Screening Option #2 (Consultation plus Screening and Short Written Report, $1,500.00): Our more comprehensive evaluation includes everything from Option #1, plus the hands-on administration and scoring of 8 informal screening tools. This thorough method isolates structural weaknesses aligned with the research-based definition of dyslexia. After the assessment, parents participate in a face-to-face meeting to discuss findings and receive a 12-page written report detailing clinical conclusions and tailored classroom accommodations.
Once a child’s screening establishes their baseline profile, they transition into the 10-level Barton Reading & Spelling System.
Unlike traditional school curricula that pass students along based on a calendar, our program is strictly mastery-based. Certified tutors check for mastery with targeted assessments before a student is permitted to advance to the next level, ensuring data-driven reading fluency that creates lifelong literacy confidence.
Why You Can’t Wait for the School System to Screen Your Child
Many parents across Chester County spend agonizing years trapped in a devastating “wait and see” cycle forced upon them by public school protocols. Watching your bright and smart child suffer through nightly homework tears while waiting for intervention can damage their self-esteem and confidence. Relying on a local school district to screen your child introduces educational risks due to the legal boundaries of state mandates.
As of 2026, Pennsylvania operates under landmark literacy legislation, including Act 135 of 2024 and Act 47 of 2025. While these pieces of legislation mandate universal reading screenings and data-tied IMPACT intervention plans for struggling students, they only apply to kindergarten through third grade. A steep “mandate cliff” exists within this law: as soon as a student enters the fourth grade, these state-backed legal protections essentially expire.
Countless parents report that their children were labeled as “remediated to basic proficiency” by the end of 3rd grade, only to see their reading progress plateau or regress in upper elementary and middle school as text complexity becomes more difficult.
For a child with moderate to profound dyslexia, a group of that size lacks the 1:1 intensity required for correcting errors in real time and mastery-based tracking. Furthermore, middle school students needing reading help are often forced into an unfair elective trade-off. This means they must forfeit academic electives like world languages just to receive basic support during the school day.
You can’t sit by and wait for public school systems to address these gaps when a professional, private screening can protect your child’s educational trajectory immediately.
You don’t need a school district telling you that your intelligent child is “falling behind enough” to qualify for an evaluation.
Give them the evidence-based tools they need to unlock their true potential, restore their self-esteem, and achieve lifelong academic freedom.
Take the first critical diagnostic step toward rewiring the brain, establishing lasting reading confidence, and securing literacy mastery.