Author: Mr Balchin

Pathway for Assessment – Dyslexia and Dyscalculia

Falkirk Education has update pathway for assessment for children facing barriers to learning that significantly impact on their literacy and numeracy. The flow chart and the guidance document outline the process for assessing and then intervening to help children. some of the children may have dyslexia or dyscalculia and the document process guides you through this assessment process so that you can make a safe educational diagnosis.

Many children who have dyslexia or dyscalculia have strengths in other areas, perhaps even enhanced by their different way of seeing the world. These are therefore identified as learning differences. 

A Guide to Assessing and Monitoring Literacy and Numeracy Difficulties April 2026

This 2026 is the 2nd Edition of our guidance document. 
it was developed in Falkirk Council by

  • Louise Amos and Judith Davies, Visiting Teachers for Learning Differences
  • Helen Benzie, Educational Psychologist
  • Editor, Nick Balchin Principal Educational Psychologist

Additional contributors to the first edition – Gail Hendry, Educational Psychologist. 

For practical use we have included standalone versions of each of the appendices in the sections below 

Dyscalculia assessment documents 

Dyscalculia possible-indicators-of-dyscalculia-parent-carer-checklist

Dyscalculia possible-indicators-of-dyscalculia-learner-checklist word doc

Dyscalculia collaborative-dyscalculia-assessment-summary-form-3

Stage 1a Assessment Record – Dyscalculia

Scottish Dyscalculia Observation and Planning Tool April 2022

Dyscalculia possible-indicators-of-dyscalculia-teacher-checklist

Dyslexia Assessment Documents

Assessment Record 1a & 1b

Dyslexia-Checklist-Early-CfE-level

Dyslexia-Checklist-First-and-Second-Cfe-Level

Dyslexia-Checklist-Third-Fourth-Senior-CfE-level

Blank Stage 2 Form

Collaborative-Assessment-Summary-Form-3

Working with Children and Parents Documents

Appendix 4 parents view

Appendix 5 Parental information

Appendix 6 Childs Views

Appendix 7 Pupil information

Parent Programmes

We offer programmes for parents of children with additional support needs. this is a growing area of our service delivery.

They involve regular sessions over several weeks. The Educational Psychology Service works in parentship with other services to deliver these.

Current Programmes

Parent Plus for parents of pre-school children with significant additional support needs.

This is delivered in Partnership with the ASN team. There is an autumn programme and a summer programme each with 10 spaces. PP Early Years ASN Poster 24-25 has more information. group sessions are weekly and start on Thursday 19th September and Tuesday 29th April.

Please use this form to make a request for a placement – PP Early Years ASN Parent information form 24-25.

 

Parent Plus for parents of children who attend Carrongrange High School.

This is offered once a year in partnership with Carrongrange High School. Please contact the school for details, or email us.

Consultation on EPS approach

This is a consultation on new ways of working with the Educational Psychology Service of Falkirk Council. The intended audience is managers of services and schools in Falkirk. The Service Evaluation data has provided some evidence that the innovations trialled between January 2018 and June 2018 were effective, particularly with Telephone Consultation and Team Around the Child level work. There was some feedback that the approach at Cluster Consultation was not seen as favourably, even by those that had tried this.

This consultation asks your opinion on 5 approaches that meet the original aims:

  • To provide a collaborative method for prioritising the activity of the Educational Psychology Service
  • To collaboratively develop knowledge and local action on the key capacity building areas

There is additional information on the rationale and the proposed options in the Briefing Paper.

Briefing for the Consultation on EPS delivery modernisation

By you providing a response to this survey you are indicating your consent to participate. The data you provide is anonymous and will be kept for no longer than is required and usually destroyed in 2 years.

The Survey is available  here https://glo.li/2O9ckMp – or by scanning the QR code.