Intellectual/ Educational Assessment
Intellectual assessments (or sometimes called cognitive assessments) are used to explore intellectual functioning, executive functioning, adaptive functioning, memory and learning capacities.
Educational assessments measure a child’s academic and learning capabilities in a range of areas including language, reading, comprehension, written expression, and mathematics.
Assessment outcomes can be beneficial in
- Identifying academic/learning abilities which can be valuable in understanding how your child processes information
- Diagnostic clarification through identifying specific learning difficulties such as Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and/or Dyscalculia
- Useful in identifying intellectual disabilities or intellectual giftedness
- To gaining greater understanding of a child/adolescents/adult’s unique cognitive profile of functioning, strengths, areas for improvement, preferred learning style.
- Gain understanding of a child’s academic ability level in a range of areas including oral language, basic reading, reading comprehension and fluency, written expression, mathematics and maths fluency and capacities
- Used in the developmental of individualised intervention or support plans
- Accessing government funding assistance, community services
- Used in the development of specific strategies recommendations to support educational learning needs and supports and for skills development and to compensate for areas of difficulty at both home and school.
- Clinical session in which comprehensive background information is gathered (e.g.developmental history, academic issues, social relationships and any concerns).
- Assessment sessions (conducted between 1-3 sessions) in which age-appropriate standardised assessments assess cognition, achievement, and adaptive behaviour.
- Clinical and school setting observations
- Assessments scoring and interpretations.
- Allied health practitioner consultations (where appropriate)
- Written comprehensive psychological report with assessment findings, diagnosis (if appropriate) and tailored recommendations
- Feedback session regarding assessment outcomes and relevant recommendations
- We also consider differential diagnoses during assessments and therefore further assessments may also form part of the assessment process to help gain greater understanding of neurodiverse presentations depending on the cognitive and behavioural complexity and level of functioning.
- The specific assessment tools used in an assessment will be determined by the psychologist in collaboration with the family.
Post Assessment Therapy
Our clinical experiences have illustrated the importance of understanding unique intellectual functioning which leads us to being able to offer post-diagnosis therapeutic support sessions. These sessions provide indepth understanding of your child’s unique intellectual profile, exploring strengths, areas of difficulty and identifying needs complemented by providing focused practical recommendations linked to specific skill and ability development.
Are available in face-to-face and via telehealth.