By providing EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENTS (for students ages 7 and up), we can determine strengths and weaknesses in your child’s learning abilities.
If there are processing blocks, these can be addressed and a course of action can be recommended with follow-up to make sure your child can succeed at learning.
The Educational Assessment is structured to reveal how your child learns. It consists of:
- Test of Visual Perceptual Skills (TVPS-3rd. Edition)
- Test of Auditory Processing Skills (TAPS-3)
- Test of Adolescent and Adult Language (TOAL-3)
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4 (PPVT-4)
- Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude (H-NTLA)
- Slossons Oral Reading Test (SORT)
- Jordan Test for Dysgraphia and Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome
This is not a psychological assessment even though the child’s mental and emotional state is taken into account during the testing time. The assessment usually lasts a full day.
In a typical assessment session, the parent may or may not choose to be present. The morning session is 3 hours with breaks where needed. Usually the child leaves for an hour lunch and returns for the afternoon session, which is usually shorter. There is a lot of flexibility in the length of time depending on the age of the child. Sometimes the sessions are shorter and spread over a couple of days.
Once the results are tabulated and all considerations factored in, a conference is scheduled with the parent(s) and the results and recommendations are reviewed. Quite often the parent(s) themselves discover that they have/had similar blocks in learning. New found hope is almost always experienced when the reason for the child’s (and sometimes parent’s) learning difficulty is brought to light.
IEP (Individual Education Plan) can be crafted based on the assessment, to go to the child’s school, and discussions with the teacher regarding the results and recommendations of the assessment will help the teacher in their teaching of your child.