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Using Tomal-2: Key features for specialist teachers and assessors

The webinar looked at the Test of Memory and Learning – second edition (TOMAL-2), which provides professionals with a standardised measure of different memory functions for children, adolescents and adults, for the age range 5 through to 59.11 years.  This can be used as a wide ranging and flexible tool for highlighting subtle aspects of short term auditory memory and working memory comparisons, and is being widely used as a replacement for the Digit Memory Test: for the purposes of DSA assessments, examination access arrangements, an

SASC Report Format Changes

These changes reflect an extensive consultation process carried out over the past three years by SASC and its sub-committee STEC, involving key professional bodies and training providers in the field, to clarify how best, in the SpLD diagnostic assessment, to use professional observation and experience alongside test results in the identification of an individual with a specific learning difficulty.