Psychoeducational testing helps parents, children, and their teachers better understand cognitive and academic strengths and areas for growth, while ensuring the client receive supports that are customized to their unique needs. It is an important factor in optimizing academic success, as well as emotional and social wellness. If you are interested in psychoeducational testing in the Washington DC metro area, the psychologists at The Wake Kendall Group can partner with you for this process.
At The Wake Kendall Group, we perform a variety of assessments for individuals in the Washington DC metro area and beyond. Here are some of our most frequently requested offerings.
School and work require us to rely on a wide spectrum of abilities, including abstract reasoning, language skills, auditory and visual processing, visual-motor skills, memory, attention, and executive functioning. We offer a comprehensive range of tests to evaluate these functions for clients of all ages. This can offer diagnostic clarity for those wondering about attention problems (ADHD), learning disorders, processing disorders, and emotional well-being.
Psychoeducational evaluations focus on the assessment of cognitive abilities and academic achievement in reading, writing, and math, with the goal of identifying areas of strength and vulnerability. Psychoeducational evaluations may help inform school supports that a student would benefit from, but are less comprehensive than a neuropsychological evaluation.
ADHD evaluations involve tests of attention and executive functioning, along with a clinical interview, developmental history, and standardized rating scales administered to individuals such as teachers, parents, and partners. This type of evaluation may be appropriate or recommended when individuals are not experiencing academic difficulty and therefore may not need formal accommodations at school or work.
When there are concerns about a client’s social-emotional factors, our psychologists work to better understand their personality and emotional functioning by using interviews, questionnaires, and projective techniques.
Our psychologists partner with parents and early childhood educators to evaluate social-emotional, cognitive, and neuropsychological development in young children.
School admissions testing focuses on cognitive functioning as it applies to learning. Our team examines verbal comprehension, non-verbal/visual-spatial skills, working memory, processing speed, and fluid reasoning, among other factors.
Our Washington DC-based team at The Wake Kendall Group will explain each step of the process for psychoeducational testing to ensure everything runs smoothly. We can answer any questions and provide clarification in an intake call and as needed moving forward.
A typical testing process includes the following steps:
Once the testing process is complete, we will make sure you feel confident about the next steps and have a clear and positive plan to move forward. We create a comprehensive written report that includes assessment results, analysis, and recommendations. The goal of this report is to help you and your family understand and utilize the client’s strengths, address the weaknesses, and help them achieve their full potential.
We use a broad range of cognitive and neuropsychological tests to evaluate abilities important to learning and daily functioning across the age span. These include: higher reasoning, language skills, auditory and visual processing, visual-motor skill, memory, attention and executive functioning.
Our psychologists and diagnosticians have experience consulting in schools. We use formal and informal achievement testing in combination with cognitive and neuropsychological assessment to clarify the nature of problems with learning.
Our psychologists use interviews, questionnaires and projective techniques to better understand a client’s emotional functioning and personality when there are concerns about social-emotional factors.
We work with parents and preschool teachers to design evaluations to answer questions about social-emotional, cognitive and neuropsychological development in young children.
We obtain background information about the client’s medical and developmental history and current strengths, needs and concerns.
With the parents or client’s permission, we gather information from school records and from current teachers through phone consultation and questionnaires. Classroom observations sometimes are helpful in this process. We follow up with school staff as needed.
Each evaluation consists of several sessions of one-to-one testing, arranged to obtain optimal performance.
When the testing is completed, we meet with parents and/or the client to discuss results and recommendations.
Our detailed written reports include assessment results, analysis and recommendations to help the individual understand and utilize strengths, compensate for weaknesses and realize potential. We strive to capture the unique profile and needs of each client.