For general services, training, communication and resources for schools please go to the Kirklees Business Solutions website.
There are a number of assessment tools that can be used within educational settings to help assess any additional needs a young person may has as well as helping to develop strategies which can be used to support SEND pupils in the setting.
This page has a range of assessment tools and interventions as well as which 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 - this includes information about SEND Support, EHCP's, 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 SENCO's and school staff to find a range of tools for the 4 areas of need.
The Education Endowment Foundation has created a Early Years Measures Database which reviews a large 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
Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL2)
Raven’s Progressive Matrices – non-verbal assessment of general intelligence
Renfrew Word Finding Test/ Renfrew Action Picture Test - vocabulary
Hertfordshire Reading Test (comparative over time)
YARC - York Assessment of Reading Comprehension
Vernon/British Spelling Test Series – for spelling
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
