Basic skills tutors with the specialist qualifications necessary to teach dyslexic adults. Employers to develop dyslexia friendly policies. Advice centres to provide information and advice in a dyslexia friendly format. It is only if you know what you are up against that you can find the right way to proceed. Dyslexia screening tests' can identify a range of underlying difficulties known to be associated with dyslexia, for example, weak short-term memory.
Some tests can be self-administered using a computer.
In depth dyslexia assessment', by a psychologist is essential for adults having severe problems. Psychologists working in the public sector should have specialist training to assess and advise dyslexic adults. Access to the first two could be available in any centre for adult learning or in Employment Offices. Any sort of assessment is inadequate in itself unless it offers the dyslexic adult the chance to understand his or her dyslexia and suggests a way forward. Education and Training.