Assessment
The information you provide us with during the file review and consultation will allow us to design an assessment protocol that will help us identify your child's academic strengths and weaknesses. A full academic assessment takes approximately a half day to complete, and will measure development in all academic skill areas. In the event that a child has been assessed recently and specific areas of concern have already been identified, we recommend an abridged assessment. An abridged assessment usually takes about an hour and a half to two hours to complete.
We use standardized and informal test measures to obtain a clear picture of your child's strengths and weaknesses. Standardized measures are those that have been carefully researched and tested with thousands of children. Your child's scores on these tests are then compared to those of other children of the same age or grade. Standardized test don't present the whole picture, however, so informal measures are used as well. Informal tests do not compare your child's performance with grade or age level peers, but rather allow us to see how your child performs when presented with tasks similar to those found in school.
Using the results from these measures, we will present an educational profile in the assessment report. This report will include the scores of the tests, interpretation and analysis of those scores, and recommendations for parents and teachers. In the report we will outline a detailed plan to remediate weaknesses though teaching at our clinic and/or suggestions for the teachers at the school.
