The evaluation
report.
The written report brings everything together. Its diagnoses and recommendations are the take-home.
The evaluation guide, part 3 of 4:
- What is an evaluation?
- The evaluation process
- The evaluation report
- After the evaluation
On this page:
What it covers
- Background historyvery in-depth, from pregnancy through the present day
- Behavioral observationswhat the evaluator sees during testing, from answering style and eye contact to motivation and engagement, and whether the results are valid
- Cognitive functioningverbal and nonverbal problem solving, visual-spatial skills, working memory and processing speed, and what it means when scores differ
- Attention and executive functioningsustaining attention, holding back automatic responses, planning, organization, shifting between tasks, self-monitoring and self-regulation of behavior and emotion
- Visual-spatial and motor skillshandwriting, visual scanning, copying from designs or the board, and how quickly information turns into output
- Languageexpressive and receptive language, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, and phonological awareness, naming and fluency
- Memoryvisual and verbal, immediate and delayed, recall and recognition
- Academic achievementreading, writing and math, from foundational skills and comprehension to calculation, problem solving and fluency
- Social-emotional functioninginterviews with parents and your child, parent, teacher and self-report measures, and information from treating clinicians
- Diagnostic impressionshow your child’s strengths and weaknesses affect their functioning, and each other
- Diagnoses and recommendationsthe take-home
Recommendations
Recommendations are organized by setting.
At school
- Classroom or school placement
- Teaching strategies
- Academic, speech, OT, PT or counseling support
Psychiatric care
- Psychiatric care and medication management
At home
- Tutoring
- Supports not available in school
- Parenting strategies
- Resources for parents
Next in the guide:
Not sure where to start?
Talk it through with us first. Tell us a little about what’s going on and we’ll help you find the right next step.