Pyschoeducational Assessments
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
Step 1: Clinical Consultation
20 minute discussion about your challenges, history & experiences via phone.
Approximately 20 minutes.
Step 2: Diagnostic DSM-5 Criteria Review
Assessment of symptoms across multiple life areas, ruling out other conditions.
Step 3: Evidence-Based Testing
Comprehensive questionnaires measuring symptoms Autism or ADHD.
Step 4: Results & Treatment Plan
Assessment of symptoms across multiple life areas, ruling out other conditions.