Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties

• Provides step-by-step guidelines for organizing an assessment, selecting appropriate instruments, and interpreting results
• Expert advice on formulating interventions and educational programming
• Conveniently formatted for rapid reference

Effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives

Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties offers school psychologists, reading specialists, and educators a practical and accessible guide to the most relevant research, information, and strategies available for understanding, assessing, and intervening with students who present with reading difficulties.

This essential resource draws on the author's Intervention Oriented Assessment, which determines why a student struggles with reading. The author's assessment technique aligns with other well-established assessments and current knowledge about the component skills needed for succe