Comprehensive Testing
Finding An Accurate Diagnosis:
A neuropsychological evaluation seeks to understand and measure the way in which a person processes information and the potential source of struggles. The abilities tested include reading, language usage, attention, learning, processing speed, reasoning, memory, problem-solving, mood, personality and more. The results of these tests can help to identify appropriate academic accommodations and recommendations for future treatment.
These assessments can include review of medical records, school records, interviews with teachers and school counselors, and consultation with your child's pediatrician or family doctor.
Many times, children who are in need of testing are those who struggle with behavioral and emotional challenges. These children are often described as "lazy" or "disobedient." Once a child has undergone testing, their mental health specialist can work with family, friends, teachers, and doctors to better help the child.
Reasons To Have Testing Done
- When a child is having "meltdowns"
- When the child does not want to go to school
- Someone who struggles to pay attention or has issues with their auditory and writing processing systems
- Someone that does not finish their assigned reading for each day
- Issues with written comprehension/memory skills
Neuropsychological & Psychoeducational Testing
Neuropsychological / Psychoeducational Testing is used to provide information about:
- Academic strengths and weaknesses, specific learning styles, poor performance, and recent academic decline
- Actions consistent with inattention, hyperactivity, low motivation, struggle to work, low frustration tolerence.
- Processing difficulty
- Memory and problem solving skills
- Perception and motor skills.
- Intelligence
- Academic achievement
- Attention, concentration, and impulsivity
Neuropsychological / Psychoeducational Testing Can assist with the following:
- Diagnosing learning abilities
- Diagnosing ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), Formerly ADD
- Diagnosing with the purpose of finding the client an academic plan (IEP & 504 Plan)
- Accommodations for standardized tests (i.e. ISEE, SAT, ACT, MCAT, LSAT, GMAT, GRE, etc.)
What We Test For
attention/adhd
executive functioning
neuropsychological concerns
learning disabilities
intellectual deficits or giftedness
anxiety
OCD
depression and mood disorders
eating disorders
personality disorders
memory and cognitive functioning
*at this time, we are not testing for autism or any autism spectrum disorders
How Does The Testing Process Work?
Cognitive ability tests (i.e. WISC-V, WAIS-IV, WPPSI-III)
Cognitive ability tests (i.e. WISC-V, WAIS-IV, WPPSI-III)
Cognitive ability tests (i.e. WISC-V, WAIS-IV, WPPSI-III)
These tests help to acess how ones verbal and perceptual reasonings correlate to memory and the speed of how fast one processes.
Attention and Executive Functioning
Cognitive ability tests (i.e. WISC-V, WAIS-IV, WPPSI-III)
Cognitive ability tests (i.e. WISC-V, WAIS-IV, WPPSI-III)
These allow people to understand why one is unable to maintain focus, initiate a task, regulate emotions, and organizations.
Academic Testing
Cognitive ability tests (i.e. WISC-V, WAIS-IV, WPPSI-III)
Memory and Learning
These tests assess reading fluency, reading comprehension, rote math facts, math calculation, written expression, writing fluency, spelling, expressive language, receptive language, phonological processing, visual-motor skills, and auditory processing.
Memory and Learning
Social and Emotional Functioning
Memory and Learning
These tests assess ability to learn and remember utilizing different modalities, assesses for visual learning and auditory learning, ability to remember rote and complex information
Social and Emotional Functioning
Social and Emotional Functioning
Social and Emotional Functioning
These tests help with the evaluation of mood, copings skills, self-concept through projective measures, clinical interviews, subjective, and objective measures
What is a Learning Disability?
A LEARNING DISABILITY IS A NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER WHICH AFFECTS THE BRAIN'S PROCESSING ABILITIES.
Many learning disabilities go undiagnosed, but usually, they are identified by a parent or teacher. Children with learning disabilities generally do not have the right skill set to be able to meet classroom expectations. Learning disabilities do not mean that one is less intelligent than another, it means that the child has a harder time processing information, which thus, leads to difficulties reading, writing, spelling, doing math, etc. When it comes to adults, many who go undiagnosed have trouble maintaining relationships, jobs, and being in a classroom.
Can learning disabilities be cured?
Although learning disabilities can't be cured, there are many steps that both family members, teachers, and therapists can do a lot to help. There are many therapies that have been proven to be effective.
What Can A Learning Disability Test Diagnose?
- Reading Disorders like Dyslexia
- Disorders of Written Expression like Dysgraphia
- Visual-Motor Integration Disorder
- Math Dyscalculia
- Executive Functioning deficits in working memory, time management, and organization.
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