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The evaluation
report.

The written report brings everything together. Its diagnoses and recommendations are the take-home.

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

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