The mission of a Child and Adolescent Psychologist is to facilitate children’s and adolescents’ optimal development through treatments and assessments. Their clientele may include children with a variety of developmental issues – from learning disabilities to social and emotional developmental delays.
A Psychologist can help with proper diagnosis when there are questions around; attention deficit disorder, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety, dyslexia, dyscalculia and/or dysgraphia.
When a complex set of symptoms in a child are presented, it is important that a psychologist can arrive at the best diagnosis. More so than other mental health professionals, psychologists are experts in conducting psychological tests.
There are a number of key signs that indicate that your child may benefit from an assessment or therapy. These include:
How Can an Educational Assessment (EdPsych) Help my Child?
Comprehensive Educational Assessments help parents and educators gain insight to a child’s unique learning profile. They assess areas of mental functioning related to memory, the ability to pay attention to tasks and to solve problems. They assist parents and educators to make informed decisions regarding their child’s educational placement, optimal learning environment and individual learning needs.
An Educational Assessment can Include:
A developmental assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of a child’s physical, intellectual, language, social and emotional development. They are usually conducted when a parent, educator or medical health professional identifies that a child is experiencing difficulty in one or more of these areas. A physician referral for an assessment is required when claiming with insurance, however should you not seek a referral we highly recommend you share your concerns with your paediatrician as it is often in the best interest of the child to work closely with other health professionals to uncover areas of developmental difficulty. An assessment can be used to uncover the nature of the developmental concern and to carefully target interventions to assist your child toward their optimal development.
As each assessment is uniquely tailored for the individual needs of the child we encourage you to give us a call about these assessment services.
The following steps are involved in the assessment:
