Our Story
In 2019, the State of California asked the UCSF Dyslexia Center to develop a universal screener to identify early risk for learning challenges, including dyslexia in our dynamic multilingual context.
In collaboration with school partners across California and experts nationwide, our multidisciplinary team—spanning early childhood education and assessment, multilingual learning, and applied neuroscience—built a comprehensive digital platform for screening, assessment, reporting, and instructional support to serve our culturally and linguistically diverse population.
From a small pilot on the Central Coast, Multitudes has scaled statewide—it is now in use in more than 1,600 schools and serving a quarter million students. Today, Multitudes is much more than a screener, it is a comprehensive resource for educators, providing assessment with instant, actionable results, and a menu of next steps to guide instruction and intervention. At scale, insights from Multitudes are informing decisions at every level of the educational system.
