Diagnostic Gap Kit
You can ask your public school for a free evaluation.
A private evaluation often costs thousands of dollars. You can ask your public school, in writing, for a free one, under the federal special education law (IDEA). Here are three things a parent can do tomorrow morning.
For families in the United States: the free school evaluation, requested in writing under IDEA Child Find. Built with reading therapists in mind, put in your hands.
Three things a parent can do tomorrow morning, before the money conversation.
Take the free reading check
A short screener that finds the safest reading step to start on. Letter sounds, blending, real and made-up words, plus a listening check-in. Prints a plain-language summary a school team can act on. It is educational support, not a diagnosis.
Start the check →Send the request in writing
You can ask your public school, in writing, for a free evaluation. The school must answer you in writing, and if it says no, it has to explain why. This is part of the federal special education law (IDEA). Fill in the fields below and this kit prints the letter for you, ready to sign, hand-deliver, or email.
Build the letter ↓Use the program while you wait
The evaluation clock is 60 days from your signed consent under federal law, or the timeline your state sets. Meanwhile, real nightly practice moves your child forward, and the weekly reports become evidence the team can read. Full access for 90 days, no card: one code per family, sent to your email and used on your own account. After that, one family plan covers every child in your home: $29 a month, or $299 for 12 months, or stop, your choice.
Get my 90 days free →Your Child Find request letter
Answer a few questions. This letter is printed from public-domain IDEA language, and nothing you type here leaves this device.
What to expect after you send this letter
The school has to respond in writing.
Read more: the 60-day timeline and the lawShow less
Under federal law (34 CFR §300.301) the evaluation must be completed within 60 days of the day the district receives your signed consent, unless your state has set its own timeline, and many have. The clock starts at consent, not at this letter, so sign and return the consent form as soon as it arrives. If they say no to evaluating, they have to give you a written notice of that decision and your legal options, including a state complaint or due-process hearing.
You are not asking a favor. You are exercising a right protected by federal law since 1975. This letter is written in the language a school district legal team will recognize.
Bring the summary from step 1 when you hand-deliver, or attach it to the email. It gives the team concrete skill data, not just parent concern.
What this kit is, and what it is not
It is: a research-informed reading screener, a ready-to-sign request letter for the free evaluation you have the right to request in writing, and real nightly practice while that process runs.
It is not: testing, a diagnosis, or an evaluation. Only a qualified professional evaluation can diagnose a reading disability, and nothing here substitutes for one.
And if a reader plateaus: the program watches progress on objective criteria, and it says so on screen and in the weekly report, in plain words.
If a child’s one-minute reads stay flat across four reads of the same kind, even after every adjustment the program makes, we tell you plainly and recommend asking your school for a free evaluation.
It will never quietly let a stuck reader stay stuck, and it will never sell you something in that moment.
If a specialist recommended this kit, thank them for the referral.
What A New Page is
A reading program you do together, at home.
Fifteen minutes a night, side by side, from first sounds to confident reading, for ages 3 to 18. Your child reads the hero’s lines in a real story, built only from the sounds your child has learned. You read the rest from a script, so you never have to guess what to say.
Fifteen minutes a night.
A real story.
Start your free weekor read one night free, no account
7 days free. No card.