Adult combined assessment
Adult Comprehensive Psychoeducational & Psychological Profile Assessment
When the questions are not all of one kind (learning, attention, mood, and whether autism explains any of it), one combined evaluation answers them together instead of in sequence.
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What the combined assessment covers
The combined assessment runs both adult evaluations (the comprehensive psychoeducational battery and the psychological profile) and adds a standardized adult autism spectrum evaluation, all in a single report.
It exists because the questions adults bring rarely arrive one at a time. Attention difficulties, low mood and a long-standing sense of being out of step with other people can each be a separate condition, or can be one condition presenting three ways. Running the assessments together lets the psychologist weigh them against each other.
If your question is clearly about learning and documentation, the adult comprehensive psychoeducational assessment is narrower. If it is clearly about mental health, the adult psychological profile assessment is the focused version. Where autism is the central question on its own, see the adult autism spectrum disorder assessment.
Two evaluations, one report
The combined assessment runs both adult batteries and interprets the findings against each other.
Psychoeducational component
Cognitive functioning (intelligence, problem-solving, memory, processing speed, executive functioning), academic performance across reading, writing and mathematics, and socio-emotional development.
Psychological profile component
Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, personality functioning, and occupational and academic functioning including burnout and workplace accommodations.
Adult autism spectrum evaluation
Standardized measures and clinical interviews assessing social communication, sensory processing, rigid thinking patterns and daily functioning in academic and workplace settings.
What the process looks like
Intake interview with a psychometrist
Before or at this interview you review and sign the assessment contract, so services proceed with informed consent. The interview gathers developmental, medical, family, academic and occupational history: report cards, Individual Education Plans and past assessments for adult students; workplace challenges and past accommodations for everyone else.
Testing
You first complete a series of screeners, which determine the battery that follows. A trained psychometrist then administers standardized measures across cognitive, academic, emotional, executive-functioning and work-related domains.
Interview with the supervising psychologist
A structured interview to clarify clinical impressions and how symptoms present across school, work and social life. No diagnosis is communicated at this meeting; if further testing would improve accuracy, you are offered it and may decline.
Analysis and report
The psychologist scores and interprets the results, writes a detailed report and provides diagnostic impressions where appropriate, with findings, recommendations and implications for school, work and daily life.
Diagnostic and feedback meeting
A 20-minute meeting with the psychologist, approximately 15 days after testing is complete, to review results, explain any diagnoses and go through next steps.
Named, credentialed people behind your 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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