Family risk is known
Family history can identify children to watch before formal reading begins.
Spot Dyslexia RiskBefore Reading Failure
A pre-reading dyslexia-risk screen for ages 3–6, before school problems stack up.
- Built for pre-readers
- 5-minute home screening on phone or tablet
- Direct signals: eye + finger tracking
- Designed for ages 3-6
- Phonological-awareness independent
The Dyslexia Paradox
The System Waits Until Reading Fails
Dyslexia biology is visible before school reading fails. That is the paradox: evidence-based intervention has the most leverage early, before schools and standard reading tests have enough failure data to act. But a formal dyslexia diagnosis usually comes only after that failure data exists, when the intervention window has already narrowed.
Early Intervention Window
Act while the window is still open. Up to 92% of at-risk children reached grade-level reading after early intervention.
Early signs can be measurable
Observable pre-reading markers can appear before ordinary reading screens are useful.
Start ScreeningWait-to-Fail Gap
Concern is visible, but action stalls. Each month of delay narrows the intervention window.
Most tools still look indirectly
Checklists depend on adult interpretations; school screeners depend on reading or phonological skills still emerging.
Concern waits for enough data
Concern may be real, but the pathway waits until enough school evidence accumulates.
Visible Failure
The system finally engages, but the odds have shifted: in Juel's longitudinal sample, 88% remained poor readers by fourth grade.
Reading failure becomes the trigger
By the time the system reacts, school problems have already stacked up.
Current intervention starts here
The trigger came too late. By now, reading rarely catches up.
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Screen Pre-Readers While the Window Is Open
Most early pathways rely on parent or teacher interpretations, phonological-awareness tasks, or reading tests. For ages 3–6, that creates the paradox: not reading yet can be normal development, or it can hide risk. Research links dyslexia risk to differences in visual attention and eye-movement patterns during simulated reading tasks. Rockids uses the Reading Simulator to model the reading process before reading skill is required, measuring gaze and finger-movement patterns and turning them into an early dyslexia-risk report.
Start ScreeningHow it works
Timely Signal, Direct from the Child
Current screeners start with parent questionnaires that require specialist interpretation, or tasks that depend on letters or early reading. Our screen uses a direct child signal captured during the session: how the child visually samples a simulated reading sequence. The patented Reading Simulator interface is designed for pre-readers, so reading skill is not required.
How it works
During reading, the eye does not move smoothly along a line. Eye movement is discontinuous: rapid jumps are saccades, the pauses between them are fixations, and backward jumps to previously sampled text are regressions in the reading sequence.
Dyslexia and reading difficulty are associated with a different oculomotor profile: higher fixation load, shorter forward saccades, and more backward returns in eye-tracking data. In developmental dyslexia, the same pattern can include more fixations and regressions with reduced average saccade amplitude during reading tasks.
The screen is built on this observable telemetry. The patented Reading Simulator interface guides a simulated reading sequence while the app counts saccades, regressions, fixations, and finger/slider continuity. An AI Scoring Model searches for repeated movement patterns and computes an early dyslexia-risk estimate.
Screen Starts
A parent confirms age, language, consent, and context before the child begins.
5-Minute Screen
The patented Reading Simulator runs a simulated reading sequence on a phone or tablet; the child does not need to read words.
Direct Child Signal
The screen records eye movements: saccades, regressions, and fixations, plus finger/slider consistency during the session.
Risk Score Report
The machine-learning model weighs repeated gaze patterns with quality gates and produces a risk score report.
Catch Risk Early
The report helps parents act on the risk signal before problems stack up, with concrete points to monitor, repeat, or discuss with a pediatrician, SLP, or reading specialist.
Catch the Risk Signal Before Problems Stack Up
Start Screening gives parents a short path from concern to evidence: a pre-reading session, direct child signals, a risk estimate, and a report that helps focus the next conversation while there is still time to support reading development early.
What You Receive in the Report
- Risk summary:A clear low / medium / high dyslexia-risk estimate based on your child's oculomotor pattern.
- Parent summary:A concise explanation of what the screen observed, why those eye-movement patterns matter, and what the result means.
- Page-by-page eye maps:Where gaze returns, fixations, and saccades concentrated during the session.
- Finger/slider context:Where finger movement stayed smooth or broke the simulated reading flow.
- Next step:What to monitor, repeat, or discuss with a pediatrician, speech-language pathologist, or reading specialist.
Pricing
Choose a Screening Path for Today
Demo Screening
Free
Let your child try the Reading Simulator before starting a full screening series.
- Demo screening session
- Reading Simulator introduction
- Risk summary preview
Screening Series
$39
Three-session screening series for one child with the full risk marker report.
- Three screening sessions
- Risk indicator summary
- Gaze and touch signal explanation
- Full risk marker report
- Next-step checklist
Annual Monitoring
$99
Two additional screening series throughout the year to track changes in risk markers and indicators.
- Everything in Screening Series
- Up to 3 screening series and reports for one child
- Reading-risk history across checks
- Age-specific observation diary
- Parent reading-skill guide
- Premium support
DyslexiaScreener estimates early reading-risk indicators. It is not a diagnosis, treatment plan, or replacement for a specialist evaluation.
FAQ
Questions Parents Ask Before Starting
Can my child use it before they can read?
Yes. DyslexiaScreener is built for pre-readers. Your child does not need to read words independently to complete the screening task.
How long does one session take?
One screening session is designed to take about 5 minutes, so a child can try it before attention, fatigue, or frustration takes over.
Can we do the screening at home?
Yes. The screening is designed for home use on a phone or tablet with a working front camera.
What are direct child signals?
Direct child signals are measurements captured during the task, including eye-movement patterns and finger/slider consistency. They add evidence from the child instead of relying only on adult interpretation.
What age is DyslexiaScreener for?
DyslexiaScreener is focused on children ages 3–6, when parents may want an early risk signal before school reading problems stack up.
Does my child need to know letters?
No. The task is designed to work before formal letter knowledge is required. It looks at how the child visually samples a simulated reading sequence.
Does it use phonological-awareness tasks?
No. The screening does not depend on phonological-awareness tasks, which is useful for younger children whose pre-reading skills are still developing.
Is this a diagnosis?
No. DyslexiaScreener is a wellness screening tool for early reading-risk indicators. It does not diagnose dyslexia, provide treatment, or replace a specialist evaluation.
What does my child do during the screening?
Your child follows a short Reading Simulator task on a phone or tablet while the app observes gaze, touch, and finger-slider behavior during the session.
Why do eye movements matter?
Reading and reading difficulty are associated with patterns such as fixations, saccades, and regressions. DyslexiaScreener uses these patterns as early risk indicators, not as a diagnosis.
How is this different from parent questionnaires?
Questionnaires depend on what an adult notices and remembers. Rockids Screener gives your child a simple Reading Simulator task that mimics reading flow, then uses direct eye- and finger-movement signals from that task.
How is this different from school screeners?
Many school screeners depend on letters, early reading, or phonological tasks. DyslexiaScreener is designed to look earlier, before reading failure becomes the trigger.
Why does a full screening series use three sessions?
Three sessions help reduce noise from tiredness, distraction, device position, or one unusual attempt. The report is based on a fuller signal than a single moment.
What happens if my child gets tired or stops?
You can stop at any time and start the session again later. An incomplete or interrupted run does not use up one of your screening sessions; it is simply retried, because a calm, valid session is more useful than pushing a tired or upset child through the task.
What if the session data is not good enough?
The app uses quality gates. A low-quality session is not counted toward the report and does not use up one of your screening sessions. You can repeat it when the child is calm, the lighting is good, and the phone or tablet is positioned well.
What does the camera do?
The camera is used for real-time eye-position tracking during the task. Rockids Screener does not record your child's face, take photos, or upload video. The app sends only normalized eye-coordinate numbers needed to estimate how the child visually follows the simulated reading flow.
Who can see my child's report?
The parent controls the report. The PDF is designed to be shared with a pediatrician, speech-language pathologist, reading specialist, or teacher when the parent chooses.
What is included in the report?
The report includes a risk summary, parent-friendly explanation, gaze and touch signal context, page-by-page eye maps, and a next-step checklist.
What should I do if the screening shows high dyslexia-risk indicators?
The report gives age-specific recommendations based on your child's risk level and observed signals. Depending on the result, it may suggest what to monitor at home, what reading-support steps to try, and when to discuss the findings with a pediatrician, speech-language pathologist, reading specialist, or school team. After home support or specialist-guided intervention, you can repeat screening later to compare how the observed risk markers are changing.
Why screen more than once during the year?
DyslexiaScreener does not make a yes-or-no diagnosis. It tracks early risk indicators that can change as a child grows, practices, and receives support. If the first report shows elevated indicators, repeat screening about every six months can help you see whether the marker pattern is improving, staying stable, or getting stronger, so you know whether the current support path is moving in the right direction.
Which plan should I choose?
Demo Screening is the first step if you want your child to try the task. Screening Series fits when you want a full three-session dyslexia-risk estimate now: for example, because you already feel concerned, a pediatrician or specialist has raised a concern, or you want another structured signal before deciding what to do next. Annual Monitoring is for families who want to respond to risk markers and build reading skills consistently across the year: it adds follow-up screening series, the parent reading-skill guide, and an age-specific weekly reading-observation diary tailored to your child's age, so you know what to watch, what to support at home, and what to discuss with a specialist if elevated indicators appear.