Fee: €100. If the criteria are met to apply for DARE, this fee includes completion of the DARE Attainment Form required by DARE. Apart from this form, the fee does not include a written report.

Please note: updated attainment testing can often be carried out by the school's Special Education Needs Co-Ordinator (SENCO) — you do not always need to see a psychologist. We generally provide this testing where the school is not in a position to do so. For Dyscalculia, however, DARE still require numeracy scores from a psychologist.

DARE literacy criteria: a score at or below the 10th percentile in any TWO of the following — reading accuracy, single word reading, reading comprehension, phonological skills / pseudoword decoding, reading speed / fluency, spelling, writing speed.

DARE numeracy criteria: a score at or below the 10th percentile in any ONE of the following — mathematical reasoning and problem solving, or mathematical computation.

The required DARE Attainment Summary Sheet is completed and given to you on the assessment date if criteria are met. 

This sheet requires a CAO number, and for this reason we can not provide these tests until the applicant has received their CAO number. 

Please note: DARE-related attainment referrals are typically only open from November (when CAO numbers are issued) to March (DARE deadline to submit evidence of disability).