For school-aged children, comprehensive assessment includes the use of clinical observations, parent interview, review of school records and prior testing, standardized and non-standardized tools, and language sampling to support understanding your child’s foundations. Assessment may look at the following areas based on your child’s strengths and needs:
- Oral motor development
- Speech sound development
- Motor planning and coordination for speech
- Phonological processing
- Receptive language skills
- Expressive language skills
- Word Retrieval/Word Finding
- Fluency (Stuttering)
- Pragmatic skills
- Learner Behaviors
as well as understanding your child’s patterns with
- attention,
- processing,
- memory, and
- learning.
For school-aged children the assessment process expands with more specificity, based on relationships between auditory and language processing, with language and reading development, writing, and learning are integral. As such, comprehensive assessment is a multi-session process to support your child and his/her educational team in understanding strengths and challenges related to academics. Areas which may be evaluated include:
- Phonemic Processing
- Auditory Discrimination
- Auditory Memory
- Auditory Visualization and Cohesion
- Reading development including decoding and comprehension
- Written Expression
The assessment process for 5-18 year old’s is up to 4 hours and costs $650.00. In addition, a 1-hour parent consultation separate from the assessment is included.*
*Additional time for assessment or parent meeting / meeting with school teams or mental health providers will be billed at the hourly rate.