Assessments
Psycho-Educational assessment
This assessment includes an intake interview with parents, a cognitive and scholastic assessment, feedback meeting and comprehensive report. Information from teachers and previous reports are also reviewed. It is often referred to as a "Global assessment" because of how comprehensive it is in assessing a child's current cognitive and scholastic functioning.
There are several different cognitive assessment measures however I generally use the WISC-IV (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, fourth edition) as it provides insight into four different domains of a child's intellectual functioning. These include verbal comprehension abilities, their perceptual reasoning ability, working memory and the speed at which they are able to process visual information. The scholastic part of the assessment measures your child's current reading level, ability to comprehend, spelling level, written expression skills, and general mathematical abilities.
All the information gathered from the assessment is scored, analysed and compared. This is then discussed in a comprehensive report which is also discussed in a feedback meeting.
The fee for a full Psycho-Educational assessment can range between R6000 and R7000 depending on your child's age (2023 fees). Depending on your medical aid plan, this fee can be claimed back with the relevant procedure codes. I work on a cash / EFT basis and will give you a receipt with the relevant medical aid codes.
50 minute therapy session R950
30 minute study skills or assessment feedback session with your child R600
For any further information, please feel free to contact me on abisimpson@gmail.com
I do not offer career assessments at the moment (2023).
This assessment includes an intake interview with parents, a cognitive and scholastic assessment, feedback meeting and comprehensive report. Information from teachers and previous reports are also reviewed. It is often referred to as a "Global assessment" because of how comprehensive it is in assessing a child's current cognitive and scholastic functioning.
There are several different cognitive assessment measures however I generally use the WISC-IV (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, fourth edition) as it provides insight into four different domains of a child's intellectual functioning. These include verbal comprehension abilities, their perceptual reasoning ability, working memory and the speed at which they are able to process visual information. The scholastic part of the assessment measures your child's current reading level, ability to comprehend, spelling level, written expression skills, and general mathematical abilities.
All the information gathered from the assessment is scored, analysed and compared. This is then discussed in a comprehensive report which is also discussed in a feedback meeting.
The fee for a full Psycho-Educational assessment can range between R6000 and R7000 depending on your child's age (2023 fees). Depending on your medical aid plan, this fee can be claimed back with the relevant procedure codes. I work on a cash / EFT basis and will give you a receipt with the relevant medical aid codes.
50 minute therapy session R950
30 minute study skills or assessment feedback session with your child R600
For any further information, please feel free to contact me on abisimpson@gmail.com
I do not offer career assessments at the moment (2023).