We assess and/or evaluate
Children, Teenagers, Young Adults, Adults and Older Adults
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Dementia
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Autism Spectrum
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Learning Disabilities
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Intellectual Functioning
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Academic Achievement
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Memory/Cognitive Functioning
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Emotional functioning
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Behavioral evaluation
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Mental Health diagnosis
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Personality Tests
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Substance Abuse (Drug & Alcohol) Evaluations
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Court ordered (Forensic) evaluations
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Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)
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Police/Security Personnel Mental Health Fitness Evaluation
If the assessment you need is not on this list, call to verify if we can do it.
Some tests can check for a multiple of disorders.
What's included in our Comprehensive Psychological Evaluation?
A psychological assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of an individual’s cognitive, behavioral, and emotional functioning as well as their learning style.
The key areas examined in a psychological assessment are:
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Intellectual reasoning capacity, or IQ
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Academic achievement, particularly in the areas of reading, writing and math
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Language-based abilities;
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Executive functioning (skills such as planning, prioritizing, organizing, problem solving, cognitive flexibility, cognitive inhibition, etc.);
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Attention capacities and associated behaviors
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Memory abilities, including visual and auditory memory in both immediate and delayed modalities; and
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Social or Behavioral Functioning
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Emotional Functioning
With every psychological evaluation we conduct a Comprehensive Clinical Interview, a review of educational or medical history (as necessary), you will obtain an accurate and Comprehensive diagnosis included in a 6-10 page report, a feedback session to explain findings & Results, documentation of learning disabilities, developmental delays, Attention/Concentration disorders, Mental/Psychological disorders and Eligibility or need for accommodation reports (IEP, 504, School/work as needed).
The following is a list of the most common measures we use during our assessments/evaluations. If the test you are seeking isn't listed, call to inquire because a great number of assessments are now conducted electronically and are purchased on an as need basis only.
Intellectual Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV)
& Cognitive Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV)
Functioning Mini Mental Status Exam (MMSE)
Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
American National Adult Reading Test (AmNART)
Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neurological Status (R-BANS)
Academic Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT-4)
Achievement Woodcock Johnson (WJ)
Abstraction & Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)
Problem Solving Trail Making Test (MMSE)
Category Test
Language Boston Naming Test
FAS & Category Test
Aphasia Screening
Visuo-Spatial Clock Drawing Test
Processing Hooper Visual Organization Test
Attention Digit Vigilance
& Concentration Stroop Test
Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT)
Learning Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS-IV)
& Memory California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT-II)
Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure
Consortium to Establish a Registry of Alzheimer’s disease (CERAD)
Motor Constructional Praxis
Grip Test
Grooved peg board
Finger tapping test
Pathology/ Geriatric Depression Scale
Personality Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II)
Characteristics Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
16 Personality Factor (16PF)
Behavioral Behavioral Assessment System for Children (BASC-II)
Substance Abuse Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI)
Occupational Self-Directed Search
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