Screener Spotlight: Your Quick Guide to the Well Screening

When it comes to identifying a young child’s risk for learning disabilities, one rule of thumb applies: the earlier, the better. Today, we’re dedicating a Screener Spotlight to the Well Screening® tool, a quick and reliable way to identify kindergarten students (ages 4–6) at risk for learning disabilities, including developmental language disorders, dyslexia, ADHD, dyscalculia, and speech sound disorders.

Created by Barbara Ekelman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Debra A. Dutka, M.A., CCC-SLP, & Karen St. Amour, M.A., Well Screening is an engaging, game-like online screener that looks at student performance in multiple skill areas that predict their future school success. Use it after a universal screening questionnaire—in just 20 minutes, you’ll get a deeper look at children’s skills in these important domains:

• receptive language
• expressive language
• social communication
• early literacy
• reading
• attention
• math calculation
• speech sound production
• motor skills