PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

TYPES OF TESTING

Psychoeducational testing evaluates learning difficulties, intellectual functioning, and cognitive strengths and weaknesses. It identifies learning disabilities, diagnoses ADHD and other executive functioning difficulties and can provide valuable insight into a student’s academic performance to help guide recommendations for accommodations, interventions and educational planning.
PBA offers in-depth neurocognitive assessments that explore how the brain functions in everyday life—thinking, memory, attention, problem-solving, language functioning and more. It identifies cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and can help to understand potential neurological or psychological conditions like traumatic brain injury, neurodegenerative diseases and other cognitive deficits.
ADHD testing requires the comprehensive evaluation of attention, focus, impulse control, emotional regulation and other executive functioning abilities to better understand how you learn, work, and manage. It is often conducted in the context of comprehensive psychological testing.
ASD testing involves a thorough assessment of social communication, sensory patterns, and emotional experience to clarify an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis or other neurodivergencies and support next steps. This is often conducted in the context of comprehensive psychological testing.
A learning disability evaluation involves a comprehensive evaluation to uncover strengths and challenges in learning, helping to explain school, work, and related self-esteem struggles. The results from this can aid in recommendations for accommodation and remediation.
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability which we are experienced in evaluating. This involves the evaluation of reading, writing, and language processing to identify learning barriers and guide recommendations for remediation and accommodations.
Personality testing explores patterns in personality organization, emotion, behavior, and relationships to gain deeper self-understanding and guide therapeutic work.

OUR TESTING APPROACH

Our practice is extremely proficient at providing comprehensive and illuminating psychological evaluations for those in need of greater clarity in their lives. Our well trained psychologists work with you to produce clear, meaningful results stemming from our proven testing processes.

Skilled psychological evaluations can include neuropsychological testing or psychoeducational testing and involve the administration of empirically derived tests aimed at clarifying questions and providing answers about a person’s cognitive, academic, emotional, neuropsychological and interpersonal abilities and functioning. These may include achievement tests, intelligence tests, neuropsychological tests, personality tests, or a combination of methods.

Achievement tests are used to measure the amount of knowledge that a person has acquired in a particular area. Intelligence tests attempt to measure a person’s intellect. Neuropsychological tests measure strengths and weaknesses in various aspects of cognitive functioning (e.g. memory, attention, visual-spatial skills, processing speed, etc.) Personality tests evaluate personality structure and identify strengths and weaknesses in personality functioning.

When a client is evaluated using a neuropsychological or psychoeducational battery, a detailed written report is produced which integrates the testing results, relevant background information, and any other gathered analyses, providing formal feedback to answer the questions raised. Testing also provides specific recommendations for remediation of any identified difficulties.

Both children and adults require psychological testing for a wide variety of reasons. Poor school functioning is one of the most identified reasons why parents request testing for their children. A thorough neuropsychological evaluation or psychoeducational evaluation with an experienced psychologist can be invaluable in helping to identify strengths and weaknesses, possible learning disabilities, or unidentified emotional difficulties in children. We assess their academic performance, adaptive functioning, attention and executive functioning, intellectual/general cognitive functioning, language, learning and memory, motor skills, visual-spatial skills and social emotional functioning, among other areas. Adults often request psychological testing for issues relating to diagnostic clarification, career concerns, personality assessment, or for medical/legal reasons. These have included psychological evaluations in complex Family Law matters.

Professional testing by a psychologist can offer much-needed insight and recommendations for important interventions, accommodations, or remediation.