Reply To: Primary SEN identification via assessment toolkit

[Belinda]

I have used the CoPS dyslexia screener for pupils aged 4-8 years since it was first made available by Lucid. It was definitely the most useful resource in my bank of assessments. Sadly, when GL bought CoPS, they made several changes and I no longer rate it so highly. Rapid is an abbreviated version, which only includes 3 of the 8 tests in CoPS, so even less useful, especially if children complete the assessments independently with no adult supervision to see what strategies they are using. I now prefer to use the paper test Dyslexia Portfolio, although this is designed for ages 6 and up, so not suitable for screening Reception pupils. I still haven’t made the decision not to continue to subscribe to CoPS, because it is the only screener I’m aware of that includes visual sequential memory tests. It’s such a shame that GL felt the need to make changes when the original CoPS was an invaluable resource for identifying children as young as 4 who are at risk of dyslexia, including visual and phonological dyslexia.