A 2-hour interview with parents (Typically over video chat). Parents are the experts on their children. In this session we want to hear about your child’s unique strengths and challenges. We’ll also go through a clinical interview to gather information on all areas of development including learning and cognitive skills, language, social skills, attention and executive functioning, and emotional and behavioral regulation.
 

A school observation. Sometimes children can more easily function or access skills in one setting and not another. Depending on the presenting concern, it can be helpful to observe the child directly in the classroom, since they may show different skills in the more controlled, 1:1 testing session.
 

Parent and teacher rating scales. We will send 2-4 rating scales over email to get quantitative data on parents’ and teachers’ perspectives on things like social skills, adaptive skills, attention and executive functioning, and emotional and behavioral functioning.  
 

3-9 hours of testing in office. Depending on the age and concern of the child, we work with parents to determine how much testing will be helpful. Testing can include cognitive skills, academic skills, attention and executive functioning, learning and memory, and social-emotional skills.
 

Phone consultation with providers (as needed). It can be helpful to gather the perspectives of important people in the child’s life such as different therapists or teachers.
 

A 2-hour feedback session (Typically over video chat). We spend time synthesizing all the data points from the pieces listed above and we review the results. This includes the data from the direct testing, strengths, areas of challenge, diagnoses if relevant, and recommendations. We love visuals here, so we tend to write things out on some quick slides to share as we discuss. We will then send you those slides after our meeting.
 

A comprehensive report. We document all pieces of the evaluation in a long report that can be shared with school, providers, and/or anyone in the child’s life who may find it helpful. Parents are in charge of this report and who to send it to.