Free reading check for adults · about 8 minutes
Understand your everyday reading experience.
Reflect on reading and writing, explore practical tools, and learn about professional assessment.
Complete the questionnaire free. Your reading summary, practical strategy suggestions and four-week planner are included with a one-time $6.95 purchase.
This educational questionnaire summarizes what you tell us about reading and writing. It does not screen for, diagnose, or rule out dyslexia or any other condition.
- 24 questions, skip any
- Free to complete
- Paid personalized results
- No timer
- No sign-up
- Answers stay in your browser
Question 1 of 24 · in the past 3 months
How often do you read written instructions more than once before you start?
For example, the steps for setting up a new phone, or a form you need to fill in.
Pick one to start. Free to complete, paid personalized results. About 8 minutes, no sign-up.
How it works
How the check works
Step 1
Reflect
Answer short questions about 8 everyday situations, such as written instructions, long documents and taking notes. Think about the past 3 months.
Step 2
Read it back
Review and edit your entered answers free. With paid access, read answer-based sentences grouped by situation, each with question references.
Step 3
Go further
The paid Full Reading Report includes strategy suggestions, a first-experiment tracker, a four-week planner and personalized discussion preparation. Generic strategy instructions remain free.
Honest limits
How to use your reading summary
Use your summary to describe experiences and prepare for conversations. Only a qualified professional can assess dyslexia; your summary cannot.
What this can and cannot tell you- No diagnosis, screening result, likelihood or risk level.
- No score, reading age, percentile or comparison with other people.
- No reassurance that you do not have dyslexia. Few reported difficulties cannot rule anything out.
- No document for employers, schools, exams or benefits.
Free, practical, sourced
Help for everyday reading
- Free toolsFocus reader, clear writing checker, adjustment letter builder and more.
- How-to guidesTurn on text to speech, dictation and reading modes on your devices.
- Questions, answeredDiagnosis, work, spelling, fonts, overlays, ADHD and more.
- Assessment by countryWho assesses adults, how to find them, funded routes and rights.
Library
Read before, after, or instead
Dyslexia in adults
How major organizations define it, where definitions differ, and why many things can make reading harder.
Self-reflection, screening and assessment
Three different things that are often confused, side by side.
What professional assessment may involve
Who carries out adult assessments in different countries, and what to ask first.
Reading tools and accessibility features
Where to find read-aloud, dictation and reading modes, and what research says about fonts and overlays.
Every factual claim links to its source. See the sources and claims register.
Which reading situations come up most for you?
Complete the questionnaire free. Your reading summary, practical strategy suggestions and four-week planner are included with a one-time $6.95 purchase. About 8 minutes, no sign-up, skip any question. Your answers stay in your browser.
This educational questionnaire summarizes what you tell us about reading and writing. It does not screen for, diagnose, or rule out dyslexia or any other condition.