Services

Specializing in: 

Comprehensive Psycho-Educational Evaluations 

This evaluation provides the most thorough assessment of a student’s problem solving and academic achievement.  The test instruments used are norm-referenced and indicate how a student compares academically in reading, writing and math to their peers.  This type of evaluation is used to determine specific learning disabilities, including dyslexia and dysgraphia. This assessment also includes ADHD symptomology, memory, and language screenings.  

Purpose of Psycho-educational Evaluation: 

• • Diagnose and determine eligibility for special programming
• • Determine appropriate accommodations and modifications
• • Provide evidence to show how ADHD impacts a student’s performance in the school setting
• • Provide parents information to help make educational placement decisions for their student that struggles
• • Re-evaluation to measure progress
• • Support documentation for application to a specialized private school
• • Determine appropriate placement/services for young students
• • Provide documentation for accommodations on standardized testing
• • Document educational need for college-age students requiring accommodations

Each comprehensive evaluation includes:

• • Extensive written report with interpretation and summary of each assessment
• • Diagnosis of the condition based on the clinical findings
• • Individualized recommendations designed to address the students needs

• The diagnostician will also meet with the parents and/or student to review the results of the evaluation and discuss the diagnosis and resulting instructional recommendations for home, school and possible tutor.  

Fee for Psycho-Educational Evaluation: $1,800

Early Childhood Psycho-educational Evaluations 

This evaluation has been developed for Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten-age students whose parents require norm-referenced information about their student’s specific learning strengths and weaknesses and to identify learning deficits.  This comprehensive assessment provides families with diagnostic data to help make decisions regarding educational services and potential school placement.  

Included in the Early Childhood Psycho-Educational Evaluation: 

• • Intellectual ability
• • Reading and pre-reading skills, including phonological processing
• • Math skills/concepts
• • Language/vocabulary screening
• • Developmental writing skills, including visual motor skills
• • Kindergarten readiness

Each Early Childhood evaluation includes:

• • Extensive written report with interpretation and summary of each assessment
• • Diagnosis of the condition based on the clinical findings, if applicable
• • Individualized recommendations designed to address the students needs

• The diagnostician will also meet with the parents to review the results of the evaluation to discuss the diagnosis and resulting instructional and/or evaluation recommendations for home, school and outside professionals.  

Fee for Early Childhood Psycho-Educational Evaluation $1,500

ADHD Evaluation

When recommended by a physician, or other treating professional, i.e. counselor or psychologist, this evaluation provides parents with objective and clinical data to show the presence of an attention deficit disorder. We provide an objective evaluation measuring areas impacted by ADHD symptomology.  Instruments used are norm-referenced and include standardized testing, a continuous performance test, information processing, sustained listening attention, behavior rating scales and a clinical interview. 

Purpose of ADHD Evaluation: 

• • Provide physicians and parents with specific data to confirm the presence of ADHD symptomology in order to formulate an appropriate treatment plan.

Each ADHD evaluation includes:

• • Individual norm-referenced evaluation (approximately 2-3 hours testing time).  
• • Extensive written report with interpretation and summary of each assessment
• • Documentation of the condition based on the clinical findings, if applicable
• • Individualized recommendations designed to address the students needs

• The diagnostician will also meet with the parents to review the results of the evaluation to discuss the findings and resulting instructional recommendations for home and school. 

NOTE:  In our practice, this evaluation is only administered to students in middle school or above that have an educational history of testing and grades that have ruled out any type of specific learning issue. 

Fee for ADHD Diagnostic Evaluation $1,200

Private School Admissions Testing

We have been selected to provide admissions testing for specific schools in the North Dallas area.  These tests are NOT diagnostic, but provide the schools with an objective measure of students overall learning potential and current academic abilities.  

Testing includes: 

• • All admissions evaluations include an evaluation of the student’s overall learning potential utilizing an age appropriate intellectual test: WPPSI-IV or WISC-V. 
• • Kindergarten applicants: the assessment will also include a measure of Kindergarten Readiness skills, as well as early reading concepts and math problems solving abilities. 
• • First grade applicants are also administered an assessment of their early reading skills and math problems solving abilities. 
• • Older applicants are also given an age appropriate reading comprehension, oral reading fluency and math problem-solving assessment.

Steps to Take:

• • Contact our New Client line with a referral from the school requesting admission’s testing.

• • A diagnostician in our office will contact you to schedule an appointment to bring your child in for testing.   The testing appointment generally takes 1.5 to 2 hours per evaluation.  Tests are individually administered, so separate testing times are needed for siblings.  

• • We make every attempt to schedule testing as soon as possible after you contact our office.  However, during the spring and summer, appointment times book up in advance. Once the testing is complete, the results are scored and analyzed quickly.  

• • Soon after we  have completed your child’s evaluation, we write up the test results in a written report.  We make every attempt to send your child’s report to the school and forward a copy (via email) to you within 48 hours after testing.

• • The report is pretty self-explanatory; however, if you have any questions once you receive the results, we are available to address your concerns about testing, not admissions policies.  

Fee for Private School Admissions Testing $500

Testing for Gifted and Talented Appeals

Students that have been denied G-T services in their school districts due to school district test performance can often file an appeal by providing norm-referenced testing to support their student’s intellectual and academic achievement in reading and math.  This abbreviated test battery consists of an intellectual assessment (WISC-V or WPPSI-IV) and norm-referenced testing in reading and math.  The diagnostician will provide a written report once the testing is complete.  

Fee for G-T Testing $700

Optional 30 minute Conference Fee for G-T testing $150

Intellectual/Cognitive Testing (IQ)

Assessment instruments are determined by age and educational need, but the following is a list of norm-referenced test batteries used in our practice:

• Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-IV (WPPSI-IV)
• Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-V (WISC-V)
• Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV (WAIS-IV)

Intelligence tests measure a students overall learning potential. Fee includes testing appointment followed by a written report.

Fee for IQ Testing $500
Optional Conference Fee for IQ testing $150