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This guidance is aimed at assessors completing a full diagnostic assessment report for Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) in mathematics leading to a potential diagnosis.

Additional guidance and explanatory detail is provided throughout in the form of comment boxes, allowing assessors immediate access to further information and clarification without needing to consult a separate document.

This document is a copy of the additional guidance and explanatory detail which appear in comment boxes in the SASC Guidance on Assessment of Mathematics Difficulties and Dyscalculia 2025.

This is the required report format for a diagnostic assessment for Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs).

This report format was updated by the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC) in May 2025. It can be used from the date of publication and its use will be mandatory from January 1st 2027.

This version of the report format should be read in conjunction with ‘Guidance notes to accompany SASC Report Format 2025’, available in a separate document which can be accessed from SASC Downloads.

Additional guidance notes and explanatory detail are signalled by [AG] and consecutive numbering used in the Guidance Notes document.