Assessments
We offer a range of assessments for children (aged 6+), adolescents, and adults. We seek to explore the social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioural abilities and challenges that make each and every one of us unique.
Types of Assessments
Cognitive
A cognitive assessment helps to understand an individual's various intellectual abilities, including thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, memory, spatial ability, and processing information.
Academic
An academic assessment helps to understand an individual's performance and progress across various academic areas, including oral language, reading, writing, and mathematics.
Educational
An educational assessment combines a cognitive and an academic assessment to provide a comprehensive understanding of an individual's unique learning profile and academic capacity. It also helps to identify a Specific Learning Disorder (SLD), including dyslexia and dyscalculia.
Cognitive Potential
A cognitive potential assessment includes a cognitive assessment and an assessment of adaptive functioning, and provides an understanding of an individual's innate abilities and capacities to think, learn, and process information. This assessment helps to identify Intellectual Disability and Giftedness.
ADHD
ADHD is characterised by differences in attention control, movement needs, and self-regulation. An ADHD assessment can help an individual to learn about and better understand their brain style and themselves as a whole.
Autism
Autism is characterised by differences in social interaction, communication, behaviours, interests, and sensory preferences. An autism assessment can help an individual to learn about and better understand their brain style and themselves as a whole.
Other Assessments
We also offer assessments that look at:
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Social, emotional, and behavioural skills/functioning,
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Adaptive functioning and daily living skills,
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Executive functioning, and
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Phonological processing skills.
Benefits of Assessment
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A deeper understanding of yourself as a whole.
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Knowledge and understanding of your strengths and areas of need.
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Knowing how you best learn.
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Identifying supports and adjustments that work best for you.
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Determining what treatment and intervention may be most beneficial.
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Increased mental health outcomes.
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Gives you space for more self-compassion.
Intake Interview
Gathering of Additional Information
Screening and Questionnaires
Cognitive and/or Academic Assessment
Report Writing and Feedback
The Process
Fees
Fees for assessments vary and assessment 'packages' can be tailored to your specific referral question and needs. The fee we charge per hour for assessments, however, is $180 (which is well below the APS recommended rate of $311). To find out more information about our assessments and fees, and to discuss the specifics of the assessment you are seeking, please contact us via the Contact page, email us, or give us a call.