Assessment Services

Assessments for children and adolescents:

  • Special education/504 eligibility

  • DSM-V diagnosis of disabilities

  • School-based Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs)

  • Educationally Related Mental Health Services (ERMHS)

  • Gifted student programs/services

  • Private school entrance

  • Accommodations on standardized tests (SAT, AP, ACT)

  • Accommodations/Supports in private school

Assessments for adults:

  • DSM-V diagnosis of disabilities

  • Accommodations on standardized tests for graduate school (GRE, LSAT, MCAT)

  • Accommodations/supports in college/graduate school

  • Accommodations/supports in vocational training programs

If you have been struggling, and always suspected you may have a learning disability, this evaluation can answer many of your questions.

What is a psychoeducational evaluation?


At Cognitive Foundations, we conduct psychoeducational evaluations to uncover the underlying cause(s) of academic difficulties when there is a known or suspected learning disorder.   

Each assessment is designed to answer the following questions:

1) What is impeding the student/adult from being successful in an educational setting and why is this difficulty happening?  and 2) What is the educational impact of the difficulties the individual is experiencing? and 3) What steps need to be taken to help the individual eliminate or reduce the impact of the impediment and reach his/her full potential?

A variety of assessment tools are used to identify processing strengths and weaknesses.  Assessments may identify DSM-V disabilities or Special Educational eligibility categories (for children and adolescents) and can identify:

  • Learning Disabilities including Reading (Dyslexia), Writing (Dysgraphia), Math (Dyscalculia), and Expressive and Receptive Language disorders

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Emotional difficulties (e.g., depression, withdrawal, anxiety, school phobia)

  • Intellectual Disability

  • Executive Functioning Skills deficits

  • Processing Disorders

  • Non-Verbal Learning Disorder

  • Other psychological disorders impacting learning and school performance.

Psychoeducational evaluations for school-aged clients will include an in-depth review of educational records, parent and teacher interviews, observations, and behavioral rating scales.

Individually administered tests are given to assess children, adolescents, and adults in the following areas:

  • Sensory-motor processes

  • Processing Speed

  • Working Memory

  • Auditory Processing

  • Language

  • Visual-Spatial Processing

  • Reasoning

  • General Intelligence

  • Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Functioning

  • Academic Skills (e.g. reading, writing, mathematics)

Other areas identified could include:

  • Gifted students 

  • Learning profiles in order to highlight which instructional methods are most and least effective with the individual

  • Need for accommodations for SAT, ACT, AP and graduate school exams (MSAT, GRE, LSAT)