Understanding. Formulating. Supporting.

Assessments

Leanne offers a range of standardised assessments. These formal assessments are designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of a person’s cognitive functioning, learning profile, academic capabilities, and social, emotional and behavioural development. Gaining insight into a person's unique pattern of strengths and challenges informs the development of tailored recommendations and support. In addition, assessing social and emotional competencies helps guide the focus and direction of therapeutic intervention, ensuring that treatment is responsive to the individual’s needs and promotes meaningful outcomes.

Cognitive Assessment

  • Individually administered standardised IQ assessment for children, adolescents and adults.

Complex Neuro-developmental Disorder Assessment

  • Individually administered standardised assessments for neurodiversity, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

  • Includes diagnostic interviews, formalised assessments, and standardised questionnaires.

Academic or Achievement Assessment 

  • Individually administered standardised assessment to identify the academic strengths and weaknesses in areas such as literacy, numeracy and written language.

  • Results assist with the determination of eligibility for educational services, correct educational placement, identification of specific learning disabilities and formulation of educational objectives and intervention plans.

Comprehensive Educational Assessment

  • Administration of a cognitive assessment together with an academic assessment.

  • A comprehensive battery of assessments can provide valuable insight into an individual’s unique learning profile and academic abilities, enabling informed decision-making regarding the most effective strategies to support their specific educational needs.

Social-Emotional and Behavioural Assessments

  • Facilitates a deeper understanding of the child’s symptomatology by tapping into their internal world in a respectful and non-threatening manner. Projective drawings and storytelling are effective techniques for understanding hidden feelings, unconscious attitudes, internal conflicts, needs, defence mechanisms, and coping strategies.

  • Checklists and questionnaires are frequently administered separately to parents and teachers to gather diverse perspectives on the child’s functioning and to better understand context-specific behaviours across home and school environments.

  • A behavioural profile assesses various aspects of both adaptive and maladaptive functioning. This can be particularly valuable in identifying difficulties related to attention, concentration, impulsivity, emotional regulation, aggression, inhibitory control, social interactions, and other areas of executive functioning.

  • Measures for anxiety, depression and social competencies are also used when required.