A comprehensive understanding of intellectual strengths and weaknesses enables the child to develop and improve and excel their skills. A comprehensive psychoeducational assessment report helps both the school and parents to structure educational programs that best cater for the child or young person’s learning, developmental, social and emotional needs.
The difference between cognitive ability and achievement is important to understand in a way that can help the pupil to work at their optimum level of ability with support and encouragement from families and their school environment.
This assessment can specifically define both your child’s strengths and his areas of weakness, allowing the strengths to be amplified and the weaknesses to be targeted and overcome. For many children, having a psycho-educational assessment performed is the first step toward not only securing a diagnosis, but also accessing a range of timely interventions and support programs.
Psychological assessments are an intensive process, requiring interviews, the input of parents, teachers, and the child, one-on-one testing sessions, and observations. Once an assessment is complete you will be provided with a complete report detailing your child’s abilities and needs.
Children may face challenges at certain tasks or socially at school from time to time. Academic skills wise, it completely normal for a child to struggle with certain areas such as math. From a social skills perspective, it’s also normal for children to have difficulty socially and behaviourally.
If the child has difficulty continually in certain areas despite classroom accommodations or help being provided, it would likely be valuable to seek out a psychological assessment. Additionally, some signs that your child would probably benefit from a psychological assessment include a worsening attitude toward school (e.g. a loss of interest in school, or thinking they are “bad at school”), disruptive behaviour in class, and/or difficulty to learn basic intellectual, social, or behavioural skills (in accordance with their age group).
Understanding different psychological tools available can help you understand what areas of a child can be assessed and where help can be offered:
The assessment carried out by our team depends on child’s presenting symptoms and the management is tailored to each child’s individual needs. The following is a list of abilities that is commonly assessed at our center:
A psychoeducational assessment can identify learning challenges in students of all ages, from young children to adults.
Psychoeducational assessment is a detailed assessment of a child's psychological and academic skills. It involves conducting specialized tests and task that assess:
The specific aspects of psychoeducational testing will depend on the presenting problem and additional tests are sometimes required.
We commonly use the following cognitive assessment tools:
Psycho diagnostic testing is used to help diagnose and clarify concerns regarding behavior, personality traits, mood, emotional functioning, and cognitive processes. When there is a suspicion that child may have behavioral or developmental disorder that can include, ADD/ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, which was previously undiagnosed.
We commonly use the following cognitive assessment tools:
Cognitive assessments or intelligence tests are used to determine a child’s learning capability by identifying their cognitive strengths and weaknesses. When interpreted in combination with comprehensive background information, parent and teachers’ interviews, the results of cognitive tests can provide a profile which can assist with the development of individualized intervention and learning plans for children.
Cognitive assessments with children require the administration of standardized psychometric tools by experienced and accredited psychologists. These tools can assess various areas of cognitive capacity, for example:
We commonly use the following cognitive assessment tools:
Pulse Therapy and Learning Center is a therapy and professional training center in Umm Suqeim, Dubai. Pulse Center addresses various conditions such as learning difficulties, motor delays, speech difficulties, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, emotional and behavioral difficulties.