Well, it’s taken about four years - and some people think I am impatient! For a long time I have been wanting a screening tool that teachers and parents could use at either at school or at home which would quickly identify both the strengths and weakness of a child that is displaying learning, attention or behavioural symptoms. Often it is impossible to get hold of an Educational Psychologist or other expert to quickly identify such issues - so Sheffield University have kindly come up with an on-line screening test which is a very good starter to see and insight into a child’s potential.
It is so often the case the children (or adults for that matter) displaying some of the symptoms often make people obsessed with the negative side of the symptoms. This screening tool does exactly the opposite - it starts focusing on the strengths. Now every teacher and parent knows that virtually every child that has reading, attention or other symptoms often has a very creative or otherwise “intelligent” side that doesn’t often manifest itself in academic work. This screening test (which we have called ACE) is intended to do just that.
Developed and thoroughly tested by Professor Rod Nicolson from Sheffield University it is now on our web site as a beta tool. Every bit of feedback that we get from you is built into adjustments and improvements, - our long term tool is to get a very powerful, very user-friendly tool that puts useful information into the hands of parents and teachers. So - what does it do? It tells you all the strengths and skills already developed. It tells you the areas where future potential is possible and needed. It tells you what is probably the preferred learning style and then goes on to give very useful suggestions about things you can do about it. Is it a full Educational Psychologists Report? Absolutely not -but it is, I believe, better than anything else out there to give a very quick insight, based upon what we can read of the neurology from the tests that are done. So - it is all on line - go to our web site to have a look - http://www.dore.co.uk/ , kids seem to like it, because it has been cleverly written as a bunch of computer games.
And don’t forget - we want all your feedback, comments, criticisms, observations, cynical remarks - whatever, so we can learn and improve it and make it even more useful for you.
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Hi Wynford I was reading your blog on the ACE test. I have put all of my family through it and I feel the results are very accurate. My husband and oldest son came out with no problems at all (expected that) myself it told me what I had already guessed I have dyslexia but also cerbellum problems to boot. My daughter was the most gratifyitn one as she has already been through Dore as a client, finishing in October 2005. Her results were all normal showing no problems at all, this proves to me that the treatment works and does not degress. My youngest is not yet 7 till december but he is showing the same symptoms as has sister and myself.
I am hoping that once he reaches 7 both of us will undertake the treatment together next year 2008. I had to put my district nursing honours degree on hold early this year due to the copying strategies I developed as a child no longer working. So my aim will be to return to my studies and complete the honours degree once I have completed Dore.
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