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Most people who have the symptoms of dyslexia are diagnosed earlier in life, but there are other people who grew up as adults and do not know that their learning disability is brought by dyslexia. They hide their learning disability and suffer the disabling effects of dyslexia through adulthood making their lives miserable. That is why testing for dyslexia in adults is necessary to understand your disability and for you to seek the necessary treatment.

It is estimated that 90-95% of adult dyslexics have never gone through dyslexia testing and are unaware of the reason for their differences. Most learned to hide their condition and became “closet dyslexics” without even knowing what dyslexia really was.

Today there are very few or no programs to identify and help adult dyslexics. Ironically, many go through dyslexia testing only after their school-age children are diagnosed with the condition. Knowing that there is a genetic link, the professionals in education frequently suggest dyslexia testing for everyone in the family.

There are two levels of dyslexia testing: screening, which is general in nature and goes broad and shallow in its preliminary look, and professional thorough testing, which is specific, in depth and tests for multiple possible problems. Screening tests are mostly questionnaires.

Sometimes, as in elementary school students, it’s class position, where reading skills are tested and perhaps all the students in the lower half or quartile of reading skills are screened for dyslexia. In these cases the basis for the screening is demonstrable reading skills or the lack of good results in reading skills.

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