Get a detailed profile before you assess
Get a detailed profile before you assess
Get a detailed profile before you assess
For independent and specialist assessors: online screening with standard scores, percentile ranks and confidence intervals across cognition, literacy, maths and executive function, so you can triage referrals and plan your own assessment.
For independent and specialist assessors: online screening with standard scores, percentile ranks and confidence intervals across cognition, literacy, maths and executive function, so you can triage referrals and plan your own assessment.
1,300+ schools
use Talamo across the UK
use Talamo across the UK
25,000+ pupils
screened with Talamo
screened with Talamo
Signposted by the BDA
dyslexia screening, ages 10–16
dyslexia screening, ages 10–16
For your practice
Screening that supports your professional judgement
Screening that supports your professional judgement
Screening that supports your professional judgement
Triage before a full assessment
Triage before a full assessment
Triage before a full assessment
See which pupils show a pattern worth a full assessment, and where to focus it, so your assessment time goes where it’s most needed.
See which pupils show a pattern worth a full assessment, and where to focus it, so your assessment time goes where it’s most needed.
Scores you can work with
Scores you can work with
Scores you can work with
Every area gets a standard score (mean 100, SD 15) against UK age norms, with a score rank, a percentile rank and a 95% confidence interval.
Every area gets a standard score (mean 100, SD 15) against UK age norms, with a score rank, a percentile rank and a 95% confidence interval.
Online, with spoken instructions
Online, with spoken instructions
Online, with spoken instructions
Pupils work on a laptop or desktop with headphones. Spoken instructions and practice items open every task, and each assessment can be split across sittings.
Pupils work on a laptop or desktop with headphones. Spoken instructions and practice items open every task, and each assessment can be split across sittings.
Evidence you can trace
Evidence you can trace
Evidence you can trace
Cognitive & Dyslexia norms come from 4,580 pupils in 85 UK schools, and its nine scales have reliabilities of 0.80 to 0.97 (KR-20). Every report records its norm version and is checked by a person at Talamo before release.
Cognitive & Dyslexia norms come from 4,580 pupils in 85 UK schools, and its nine scales have reliabilities of 0.80 to 0.97 (KR-20). Every report records its norm version and is checked by a person at Talamo before release.
Better value at scale
Better value at scale
Better value at scale
Pricing is based on credits: the more you buy, the less each assessment costs. Book a call and we’ll put together a quote for your practice.
Pricing is based on credits: the more you buy, the less each assessment costs. Book a call and we’ll put together a quote for your practice.
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This is the first step for parents and schools to decide whether they should go forward with a formal assessment.
This is the first step for parents and schools to decide whether they should go forward with a formal assessment.
This is the first step for parents and schools to decide whether they should go forward with a formal assessment.
Lucy Pelling
Head of SEN and Assessment Centre, Moon Hall
Head of SEN and Assessment Centre, Moon Hall
The assessments
Three standardised assessments
Three standardised assessments
Three standardised assessments
Use one, two or all three, depending on the referral question. If a pupil takes more than one, a full report brings their results and recommendations together.
Use one, two or all three, depending on the referral question. If a pupil takes more than one, a full report brings their results and recommendations together.
From referral to a profile you can use
From referral to a profile you can use
From referral to a profile you can use
Set up a pupil, they complete the tasks online and you get a detailed profile to bring into your own assessment. A person at Talamo checks every report before you see it, normally within 48 hours.
Set up a pupil, they complete the tasks online and you get a detailed profile to bring into your own assessment. A person at Talamo checks every report before you see it, normally within 48 hours.
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Set up the pupil
Set up the pupil
Set up the pupil
Add the pupil to your account, choose one, two or all three assessments and give them their personal Login ID.
Add the pupil to your account, choose one, two or all three assessments and give them their personal Login ID.
Choose the assessments
Personal Login ID
Ages 7–16
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They complete it online
They complete it online
They complete it online
Pupils log in at test.talamo.co.uk on a laptop or desktop with headphones. Spoken instructions and practice items open every task, and a pupil who tires can log back in later and carry on.
Pupils log in at test.talamo.co.uk on a laptop or desktop with headphones. Spoken instructions and practice items open every task, and a pupil who tires can log back in later and carry on.
35–45 min, can be split
Spoken instructions
Chrome on a laptop or desktop
See what pupils do
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Bring the profile into your assessment
Bring the profile into your assessment
Bring the profile into your assessment
You get the report: a cognitive profile, a scores table with score ranks, percentile ranks and 95% confidence intervals, a Level of Need and personalised recommendations. Use it to inform, not replace, your own assessment and judgement.
You get the report: a cognitive profile, a scores table with score ranks, percentile ranks and 95% confidence intervals, a Level of Need and personalised recommendations. Use it to inform, not replace, your own assessment and judgement.
Scores with 95% CIs
Level of Need
Personalised recommendations
Talamo is a screening tool, not a diagnostic assessment. It complements your own diagnostic assessment, including for JCQ access arrangements, and doesn’t replace it.
Talamo is a screening tool, not a diagnostic assessment. It complements your own diagnostic assessment, including for JCQ access arrangements, and doesn’t replace it.
The detail you need, in the report’s own layout
The detail you need, in the report’s own layout
The detail you need, in the report’s own layout
See a sample report
Cognitive profile
A chart of standard scores in every area, so strengths and difficulties stand out at a glance.
Scores table
Standard score, score rank, percentile rank and 95% confidence interval for each area.
Level of Need
From Low to Very high, set by a fixed rule from every assessment the pupil has completed.
Screening results
A dyslexia risk level, signs of dyscalculia or executive function challenges, reported as screening results, never as a diagnosis.
Personalised recommendations
Strategies for the classroom, extra support and home, chosen from a curated library to match the pupil’s profile and year group.
Assessors: your questions
Assessors: your questions
Assessors: your questions
Common questions from independent and specialist assessors.
Common questions from independent and specialist assessors.
How can Talamo fit into my assessment practice?
What does each score in the report tell me?
How do I know whether a result is reliable?
Which established assessments is it based on?
Still have a question?
Talk to our team
See what Talamo could add to your assessments
See what Talamo could add to your assessments
See what Talamo could add to your assessments
Book a call with our team. We’ll walk you through a sample report and talk through how screening could fit alongside your own assessments.
Book a call with our team. We’ll walk you through a sample report and talk through how screening could fit alongside your own assessments.
Pupil profile
Sample report · standard scores
Verbal reasoning
91
Phonological awareness
79
Processing speed
82
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© Talamo Limited 2026. Registered in England and Wales, company number 13714418. Registered office: 3 Buckland House, William Prance Road, Plymouth PL6 5WR.
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© Talamo Limited 2026. Registered in England and Wales, company number 13714418. Registered office: 3 Buckland House, William Prance Road, Plymouth PL6 5WR.