Psychoeducational assessment
Comprehensive Psychoeducational Assessment
When school is harder than it should be, a psychoeducational assessment shows why, and turns the answer into recommendations for your child's Individual Education Plan.
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What a psychoeducational assessment answers
Our comprehensive psychoeducational assessment focuses on essential areas of cognitive functioning, academic performance, and socio-emotional development. It includes a series of standardized cognitive and educational measures, which are essential for diagnosing specific learning disorders and attention deficit disorders (ADHD or ADD).
If the question is emotional or behavioural rather than academic, a mental health assessment is the narrower evaluation. Where learning and mental-health questions overlap, a complex assessment covers both.
What this assessment measures
Three areas, assessed together with standardized cognitive and educational measures.
Cognitive functioning
Reasoning, working memory and processing speed: the underlying capacities behind how your child learns.
Academic performance
Reading, writing and mathematics measured against standardized norms, so a mark on a report card can be compared with actual ability.
Socio-emotional development
Mood, anxiety and behaviour, to clarify whether emotions are masking ability.
What the process looks like
Clinical interview
We review the questionnaire you submitted and gather your child's developmental, medical, family, academic and social-emotional history. Report cards, Individual Education Plans and any previous assessments are read as part of this.
Testing
Our psychometrist administers standardized assessment batteries covering cognitive functioning, academic performance and socio-emotional development.
Analysis
Scoring and interpretation, report writing, summaries, recommendations and any warranted diagnoses by the psychologist.
Feedback session
We explain the report and any diagnoses in full, including how the results may affect your child's learning, worldview and social interactions. Recommendations are written for an effective Individual Education Plan, naming the accommodations and interventions to ask for.
Parent advocacy
A workshop and individual sessions with a parent advocate, included in the service: support for acting on a diagnosis rather than being left with a document.
The people behind your child's report
Testing is administered by a psychometrist and supervised, reviewed and signed by a psychologist.
Good to know
- Where & how
- In person or Online.
- Support that often follows
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