Understanding. Formulating. Supporting.

Assessments

Leanne offers a range of standardised assessments for children and adolescents. Formal assessments are recommended to obtain a comprehensive understanding of a child’s learning profile, their cognitive potential and academic abilities, as well as further insight into behavioural difficulties and social-emotional competencies. Understanding a child’s particular learning profile of strengths and weaknesses has implications for educational recommendations. Understanding their social and emotional competencies is useful to guide the direction and focus of a therapeutic intervention and treatment options.

Cognitive Assessment

  • Individually administered standardised IQ assessment for children and adolescents.

Academic or Achievement Assessment 

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

  • Results assist with 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 battery of tests can assist parents and educators to develop insight into a child’s unique learning profile and academic capabilities and make informed decisions about how best to support the child’s individual learning 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 way. Projective drawings and story telling are efficacious techniques to understand hidden feelings, unconscious attitudes and internal conflicts, needs, defence mechanisms and coping strategies.

  • Checklists and questionnaires are often administered separately to parents and teachers for the purpose of understanding different perspectives of the child and facilitating an understanding of context-specific behaviours.

  • A behaviour profile measures certain aspects of adaptive and maladaptive behaviours which is valuable when a child may be struggling with attention, concentration, impulsivity, regulation, aggression, inhibition, social relationships and other areas of executive functioning.

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