We offer different types of evaluations for different kinds of kids. We are also happy to customize an assessment to ensure it meets your family’s needs.
We strive to make the process fun for your child and educational for you, so that we can work together to effect change.
1. Comprehensive Neuropsychological Evaluation
This is our most popular evaluation and includes an assessment of the following:
Cognitive abilities (IQ testing)– such as verbal and visual reasoning, novel problem solving, processing speed, and working memory, in depth academic skills, learning strengths and differences, language and visual processing, memory skills, attention and other executive functions, and mood and behavior –as they impact learning and school success.
This assessment is appropriate if you would like a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between your child/adolescent brain and behavior and have concerns about things like learning differences (e.g., dyslexia, dysgraphia, written expression, reading fluency, reading comprehension, calculation, or math, problem-solving), slow information processing, memory issues, language, or visual, processing differences, ADHD and other executive dysfunction, anxiety, depression, and other mood or behavior challenges but do not have concerns about autism.
2. Specific Learning Disorder/Psycho-Educational Evaluation
This includes an assessment of the following:
Cognitive abilities (IQ testing)– such as verbal and visual reasoning, novel problem solving, processing speed, and working memory, in depth academic skills, learning strengths and differences, memory skills as they pertain to learning, and mood and behavior –as they impact learning and school success.
This assessment is appropriate if you have concerns about a specific learning disorder (such as dyslexia, challenges writing/getting thoughts onto paper, and difficulty with math calculation or problem solving) or would like to better understand your child’s learning strengths and differences but do not have concerns about ADHD or autism.
3. ADHD/Executive Functioning Assessment
This includes an assessment of the following:
Cognitive abilities (IQ testing)– such as verbal and visual reasoning, novel problem solving, processing speed, and working memory, memory skills, attention, and other executive functions such as planning, organization, prioritization, cognitive flexibility, and impulsivity, and a screening of mood and behavior as they relate to symptoms.
This assessment is appropriate if you have concerns about ADHD or other executive dysfunction but do not have concerns about learning, language or visual processing, or autism.
4. Targeted Autism Assessment
This assessment is targeted toward diagnosing autism and other social developmental differences. It includes the evaluation of your child/adolescent’s social-emotional reciprocity, peer relationships, social communication, behavior, and social cognition. It does not include any of the other testing listed above.
COMBINED ASSESSMENTS THAT WE OFFER- we are also happy to customize an evaluation to meet your needs.
5. Comprehensive Neuropsychological Evaluation plus Autism Assessment
This includes everything described in the comprehensive neuropsychological assessment above PLUS an evaluation for autism: including: social skills, social-emotional reciprocity, social/pragmatic communication, peer relationships, social interest, behavior, and social cognition.
This assessment is appropriate if you have concerns about autism or other developmental differences in addition to to the other neurodiversities listed above.
6. Autism and ADHD/Executive Functioning Skills Assessment
This includes everything described in the ADHD Assessment and Targeted Autism Assessment and nothing else.
This assessment is appropriate if you have concerns about both autism and ADHD.
OTHER TESTING AND SUPPORTS
IQ Testing
This includes an assessment of cognitive skills alone. IQ testing is often completed for private school admissions or to understand whether your child/adolescent is cognitively gifted (and there are so many types of gifts :). It is also useful in identifying cognitive strengths and any differences that may be hindering progress at school or elsewhere. Results will be conveyed in a brief written report and a 30-minute feedback meeting.
Parenting Support Sessions
Sessions to assist with parent education and support around understanding your children and yourselves as you learn about purposeful communication and positive ways to set boundaries and expectations. We will strive to help you to feel empowered to restore the family dynamic to one with less conflict and more positive time together.
Classroom Observations
This service is utilized when a family feels that their child would benefit from an in-person observation of their learning, behavior, and/or peer relationships at school to help direct a treatment plan and includes an intake meeting, parent and teacher screening questionnaires, communications with the school, a 60 minute observation, report summary with treatment recommendations (if applicable), and a 30 minute zoom feedback session.
Most assessments listed above can be conducted with feedback and questionnaires from teachers or a counselor that knows your child well, in combination with a thorough review of any prior test reports and other information gathered from you, their therapists or other treatment professionals (if applicable), and school staff. However, if an in person classroom observation is requested as part of an assessment, it can be completed for an additional charge.
(Please note that a recorded observation for us to review is included in the assessment prices above and that every effort will be made to do an in-person observation for developmental assessments. This is not always possible because of scheduling but we will try our best to make it happen.)
Comprehensive Treatment Plan Meetings
This service includes a 90-minute meeting with parents, in person or over zoom, to review your child’s development and current presentation so that we can work together to determine the next best steps for them at school and at home. This also includes a written summary report of the meeting with recommendations, and referrals.