About Us

Motif provides a trusted set of tests that help education professionals trouble-shoot literacy difficulties in children.

The most popular tests have digital and/or printed kits available for purchase, and all tests have printable PDF versions of the tests, free to download.

Digital tests are available on iOS, Android, or web, and automate the complex rules and results calculations of tests. They make running tests low effort, and convenient.

Test Developers

  • Professor Genevieve McArthur

    MOTIf Project Developer and Manager

    Lead author of the Test of Everyday Reading Comprehension (TERC)

    Head, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

    Director, Macquarie University Reading Clinic

    ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders

  • Professor Anne Castles

    Lead author of the Castles and Coltheart 2 (CC2)

    Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

    Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders

  • Dr Saskia Kohnen

    Lead author of the Diagnostic Spelling Test for Nonwords (DiSTn), the Diagnostic Spelling Test for Irregular Words (DiSTi), the Diagnostic Spelling Test - Morphology (DiST-m), Spelling Test for Sounds (DiSTs), the Diagnostic the Letter Identification Test (LIDT), the Test of Orthographic Choice (TOC), and the Letter Position Test (LetPos).

    Associate Professor, Macquarie University Reading Clinic

    Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

    ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders

  • Dr Danielle Colenbrander

    Lead author of the Diagnostic Reading Test (DiRT)

    Australia Centre for the Advancement of Literacy (ACAL) at Australian Catholic University

  • Dr Eva Marinus

    Lead author of the Australian norms for the Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE)

    Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

    ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders

  • Dr Britta Beidermann

    Lead author of the Battery for Assessment of Plural Processing in Aphasia

    School of Psychology, Curtin University

    ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders

  • Linda Larsen

    Lead author of the Letter Sound Test (the LeST)

    Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

    ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorder

  • Erin Banales

    Clinic Coordinator, Macquarie University Reading Clinic

    Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University

    ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders

Scipilot Product Team

  • Co-founder - Pip Jones

    Pip is a technologist with decades of experience, building all sorts of software and hardware solutions.

  • Co-founder – Matt Russell

    Matt is a Product Manager with over 15 years experience creating software solutions for customers.