Assessment
Psychological assessments for kids and teens.
Psychological assessments play a crucial role in exploring and clarifying the presence of a diagnosis and underlying reasons for areas of concern. They offer valuable insights to assist in the development of effective treatment plans, foster comprehension of diagnoses, and enhance understanding of learning and education needs.
Psychological assessments explore and identify both the strengths and challenges of your child, providing key guidance on how they learn best. This understanding is essential in guiding treatment and offering specific recommendations tailored to your child's unique needs. The ultimate aim is to provide recommendations to support across all facets of their life, including the home, school, social, and other environments.
Types of Assessments
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Psychoeducational assessments provide valuable insights into your child's unique profile. These assessments focus on cognition, academics, and learning, enabling us to identify specific areas of strength and challenge. This type of comprehensive evaluation can help to identify Specific Learning Disorders, ADHD, Giftedness and memory difficulties. Additionally, we explore if social-emotional factors like anxiety or mood affect your child’s learning experience and overall well-being. Our assessments allow us to offer tailored recommendations for both school and home environments, empowering you to support your child's learning journey effectively.
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Psychodiagnostic assessments can assist in gaining a deeper understanding of your child's emotional, behavioural, and psychological well-being. They carefully assess whether any mental health concerns meet established diagnostic criteria, enabling the development of appropriate treatment recommendations. Our dedicated team of clinicians is equipped with training and experience in evaluating various mental health concerns, including conditions related to anxiety, mood, behavior, and emotional dysregulation.
Connecting you with assesment services
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Complete an intake.
You will complete a brief intake questionnaire so that we may learn about your needs and goals. This also helps ensure that our services are right for you.
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Meet your clinician.
Ready to be matched? We will share who from our team is the best fit for your needs and preferences, invite you to read their clinician bio, and answer any questions.
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Assessment.
A plan will be developed collaboratively with your clinician, based on assessment goals. After testing, you will receive a written report and participate in a feedback session.
FAQs
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Our psychologists and doctoral level associates have extensive knowledge regarding child development. They assess cognitive skills and make recommendations to help adapt the environment to support your child’s learning. Our team are amazing at helping teachers put recommendations in place at school and home. They work with the school teacher and can offer school meetings to help with Individualized Education Plans.
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The assessment has three parts:
We meet with you to ask questions about your child’s developmental history and we might ask you and your child’s teacher to complete some questionnaires.
Your child will complete lots of tasks that assess their thinking skills. These are fun and engaging and many of them are on iPads.
You will meet with us to receive the results of your child’s assessment and we will provide you with a comprehensive report. We provide recommendations and can talk with school teachers and schools to help your child achieve their best.
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Cognitive means thoughts or our thinking processes. A cognitive assessment is sometimes called an educational assessment, a learning assessment or a psychoeducational assessment. They measure a child’s strengths and difficulties in:
language
memory
visual and spatial reasoning
attention
executive functioning
For example, we can assess for Specific Learning Disorders in Reading, Written Expression, or Mathematics (these used to be called Dyslexia and Dyscalculia). Or you might be interested to assess if difficulties with attention might be part of an ADHD diagnosis. We can also assess if anxiety is causing problems with test taking. Please note that Psychologists do not prescribe medication and we recommend talking with a GP, Pediatrician or Child Psychiatrist.
