- To put quality first in delivering a comprehensive and effective professional service for people with dyslexia and/or other specific learning differences
- To provide an assessment service for children suspected of having dyslexia and/or other specific learning differences
- To provide a remediation service for people with dyslexia and/or other specific learning differences, including educational therapies
- To raise public and professional awareness of the nature and incidence of dyslexia and/or other specific learning differences
- To enable others (teachers, parents and professionals) to help people with dyslexia and/or other specific learning differences
- To support and elicit support for people with dyslexia and/or other specific learning differences and their families
- To promote and carry out local research into dyslexia and/or other specific learning differences and to disseminate results
- To network with organisations with similar objectives in and outside Singapore.