Child & Adolescent Assessment

If you are a parent and have concern about your child’s performance in school or simply wish to help your child achieve to his or her potential, psycho-educational assessment can identify areas of strength and weakness and target optimal learning styles. Intellectual assessment is also offered for children who are being considered for gifted programs in school.

dentifying a child’s areas of strength and weakness can help target optimal learning styles.

Psycho-educational assessment is available for children utilizing the most recent and accepted measures of cognitive and educational functioning. Some of the measures used include the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale – 5th Edition, the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.

An intellectual assessment identifies areas of cognitive strength and weakness. These areas may include verbal and language functioning, visual-spatial functioning, numerical reasoning, and memory functioning. Learning disabilities are suspected when there is a significant discrepancy between a child’s intellectual functioning and academic performance and when other psychological and environmental factors are ruled out.

Assessment is conducted in a supportive environment to maximize performance and validity of results. Information is gathered using a variety of the most up-to-date and reliable tests and procedures, specific to the child’s presenting problem. Classroom observations and teacher interviews are often used to gain a comprehensive view of the child.

Contact Behavior Therapy of New York to learn more about assessment for children.