For general services, training, communication and resources for schools please go to the Kirklees Business Solutions website.
We are pleased to inform you that we are conducting a full Local Offer review. As a result, you may see some short-term disruption on the site. But in the longer term, we hope you will see many positive changes and easily accessible information.
Many assessment tools can be used within educational settings to help assess any additional needs a young person may have, as well as helping to develop strategies which can be used to support SEND pupils in the setting.
This page provides a range of assessment tools and interventions, as well as agencies you can refer to if you need to take this further.
A lot of resources and documents can be found on this Kirklees Special Educational Needs Documents page, including information about SEND Support, EHCPs, Good Practice, Kirklees SEND strategic documents, and person-centred approaches, including the PATH.
We do not endorse any one tool over another; the information on this page is to help SENDCOs and school staff to find a range of tools for the 4 areas of need.
The Education Endowment Foundation has created an Early Years Measures Database (opens link in new window) that reviews a wide range of language, literacy, numeracy, and SEMH assessment tools.
Quality First Teaching strategies - for all staff to use in every class:
Graduated approach / QFT guidance (Cognition & Learning)
Assessment tools:
British Picture Vocabulary Scale – receptive language/vocabulary
Raven’s Progressive Matrices – non-verbal assessment of general intelligence
Renfrew Word Finding Test/ Renfrew Action Picture Test - vocabulary
YARC - York Assessment of Reading Comprehension
GL Assessment – group reading comprehension tests including NGRT
Gray Oral Reading Tests (GORTS) – fluency and comprehension
Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT4) – reading (decoding) and spelling
Lucid dyslexia screening tests (from GL Assessment)
Intervention tools:
External agency support
Additional Needs Partnership (locally with other schools)
Quality First Teaching strategies - for all staff to use in every class:
Graduated approach / QFT guidance (Communication & Interaction)
Assessment tools:
Communication Trust: progression tools
WellComm toolkit (GL Assessment) – screener and interventions for EYFS and Primary phase
Intervention tools:
SULP (social use of language program)
External agency support
Quality First Teaching strategies - for all staff to use in every class:
Graduated approach / QFT guidance (SEMH)
Assessment tools:
SDQ (Strengths and difficulties questionnaire) - free and available in many languages
GL Assessment: Emotional Literacy
PASS (Pupil Attitudes to Self and School) - GL Assessments
Intervention tools:
Emotion Coaching (from Kirklees EP Service)
PATH (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope) - Person centre planning tool.
External agency support
Quality First Teaching strategies - for all staff to use in every class:
Graduated approach / QFT guidance (Sensory)
Assessment tools:
Intervention tools:
Interventions will be developed following the use of the Kirklees Sensory Toolkit (above)
External agency support
en-GBLast updated: 20/04/2021
