Psychoeducational Assessments
In person • Virtual • hybrid
Understanding how you learn, identifying strengths and challenges, and answering specific questions about your cognitive and academic functioning.
A psychoeducational assessment is a comprehensive assessment that examines your cognitive, academic, and socio-emotional functioning in order to better understand how you learn and process information. When warranted, they can help identify learning disabilities, attention-related difficulties, or other factors that may be affecting performance in academic, occupational, or daily life settings. A psychoeducational assessment can be helpful in identifying learning strengths and weaknesses, along with other factors that may be jointly contributing to difficulties with reading, writing, mathematics, attention, memory, organization, or task completion. Psychoeducational assessments can also be used to help you obtain necessary supports and/or accommodations in postsecondary education or the workplace, as well as to guide recommendations for learning, skill development, and ongoing support.
Among the many possible reasons one might value having a psychodiagnostic assessment, some common reasons include:
Better understanding your learning profile, including cognitive and academic strengths and weaknesses
Identifying learning disabilities or other difficulties that may be affecting academic, workplace, or everyday functioning
Identifying giftedness and better understanding how advanced cognitive abilities may shape learning, performance, and support needs
Exploring whether attention, executive functioning, memory, or processing difficulties may be contributing to ongoing challenges
Clarifying why reading, writing, math, studying, test-taking, organization, or task completion may feel more difficult than expected
Helping you access accommodations in postsecondary education, professional training, or the workplace
Supporting applications for academic accommodations, workplace accommodations, or other formal supports
Providing documentation and recommendations to support applications for developmental services, including DSO eligibility where appropriate
Informing individualized recommendations for learning strategies, skill development, and support
Providing documentation to support educational, occupational, or other formal needs
Guiding referrals to coaching, tutoring, therapy, or other services
Revisiting or clarifying a previous diagnosis or past assessment findings
Building insight into personal strengths, learning strategies, and areas for growth
What to expect during your testing
Psychoeducational assessments add cognitive testing to the baseline psychodiagnostic assessment and take 13–18 hours total (i.e., 13–15 hours for a brief neuropsychological battery; 15–18h for a comprehensive neuropsychological battery). The hourly rate is determined based on the clinician you choose to work with. The assessment is typically structured as follows:
Step 1: Clinical Consultation
20 minute discussion about your challenges, history & experiences via phone. You will be able to share your concerns so that your clinician may customize the assessment
Step 2: Intake Forms
Before the first meeting, you will need to complete a background history form for your clinician to review, as well as consent forms.
Week 1: 2 hour Clinical Interview
Between meetings, your clinician will ask you to complete a tailored battery of questionnaires and psychological measures, based on concerns identified in the first meeting.
Week 4 or 5: 1 hour Feedback session to discuss findings, recommendations, and diagnoses (if applicable).
You will receive your report shortly after the feedback session.
Weeks 2 or 3: 3–5 hour In-person Cognitive testing
Week 2: 1 - 2 hour Clinical Interview Follow-up
Follow up interview to give feedback on questionnaires & psychological measures.
Weeks 3 or 4 - Your clinician will gather other supplemental information, as applicable, including:
Collateral interviews with other health care providers, friends, and family
Conduct cognitive testing
Please note: In the hours that are not spent directly with you, your clinician is interpreting your findings and writing your report.