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Comprehensive Assessments
ACPC Psychology offers comprehensive diagnostic, cognitive, learning, behavioural and clinical assessments to help understand individual profile, needs and guide intervention goals in the aim of providing direction for families to support their child's development.
WHAT DOES A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT MEAN?
Assessment entails a 'comprehensive overview' of the child's individual profile. The process involves using Multi assessments from Multi informants which may include; a clinical interview with the parents, a clinical child interview or preschool/school visit as well as the use of questionnaires and standardised screening measures. In certain cases, a diagnostic and clinical assessments may also include the administration of standardised testing to determine the cognitive, learning, emotional, social and behavioural profile of the individual.
WHAT IS INVOLVED IN THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS?
For a summary of the steps involved in the Assessment process, please click here.
The following lists some of the most popular assessments conducted at our clinic:
Educational/ Learning Profile Assessment
Educational/ Learning Profile Assessment
• Assessing strengths and difficulties in learning
• Diagnosis of Specific Learning Disorders (Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia)
• Helps understand reasons for poor learning performance
Cognitive/ Psychometric Assessment
Cognitive/ Psychometric Assessment
• Assessing Intelligence and/or Giftedness
• Identifying weaknesses or strengths in learning
• As part of an overall assessment of ability
• Helps in accessing funding at schools
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Assessment
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Assessment
Requires utilising a combination of:
• Expertise knowledge in the area of ADHD (Types, variations in gender and across lifespan)
• Determining the nature of deficits in executive functioning and emotional dysregulation for clinical differentiation
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Assessment
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Assessment
Requires a combination of:
• Clinical Interviews with Parent & Child
• Specific Measures for Parents/Educators
• Autism Diagnostic Assessments: the ADOS-2: Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, or MIGDAS-2 and the ADIR: Autism Diagnostic Interview- Revised
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