A psycho-educational assessment is a comprehensive assessment looking at a student’s cognitive ability, processing skills, and academic achievement skills. This assessment helps identify a child’s learning strengths and weaknesses. The process involves direct testing, observation of student, parent interview, teacher interview, and review of school records. The evaluation concludes with a summary on whether the student is eligible for special education services in accordance with IDEA eligibilities as well as a list of recommendations for school support.

A preschool assessment is similar to a psycho-educational assessment with the main difference tailored to the approach used during an assessment for preschool-age children. Children are assessed through both standardized assessment and play-based approach to capture their true skills. The process entails natural observations, in-depth interviews with parents on early development, discussion with preschool service providers if the child is attending school or receiving therapy, and play-based assessments. The assessment will bring information on the child’s present development of cognitive skills, strengths, weaknesses, and discussion of IDEA eligibilities (ages 3 and up), as well as provide hands-on advice on interventions and recommendations, sometimes leading to the development of other plans (such as behavior intervention plans or incentive home/school plans to increase the skills we want to focus on).

This service is available if you need to meet school entrance requirements for private school admission or you simply want to get more information on your child’s intellectual abilities. Identify you child's eligibility to gifted organizations and programs such as Mensa, Davidson, and more.

This may be an interest of yours if you want to know how your child is doing academically when compared to students of the same age level nationwide. This information may help you tailor academic tutoring support to focus on areas of academic weaknesses and develop incremental measurable goals for academic achievement.

You may be interested in this service if you want a second opinion or impartial assessment from your child’s school district’s findings. The assessment will cover components of a psycho-educational evaluation with a comprehensive evaluation to further reveal the needs of the child to better develop intervention goals/plans and develop appropriate service in school. Contact Little Seed for further details.