A psychoeducational evaluation answers why a capable child is struggling at school. It measures ability, academic skill and the processing underneath both, and reports the result in language a parent and a school team can each act on.
Selected against the referral question rather than administered as a fixed battery.
WISC-V, WPPSI-IV and KBIT-2, reported without the jargon that makes a score unusable.
WIAT-4 and WRAT-5, measuring reading, writing and mathematics against grade level.
Working memory, processing speed and phonological processing, which is usually where the explanation sits.
Batería IV, normed in Spanish rather than translated on the day, so ability is measured and not language.
Rating scales across home and school, because a learning difficulty and an anxiety problem can look identical from one side.
The same case-study evaluation a district would run, on a timeline that is not the school calendar’s.
A screener flagged something and nobody explained what testing would actually answer.
Private psychoeducational testing, scheduled independently of the district’s timeline.
A Spanish-speaking psychological evaluator, so the language of testing is not mistaken for the finding.
Four things: thinking and reasoning ability, academic skills measured against grade level, the processing underneath both, and how your child is doing emotionally and behaviorally. Which parts are used depends on the question you are trying to answer, so the testing is chosen for your child rather than run as a fixed battery.
The fee depends on the question being answered and how many sessions the evaluation needs. You get a figure at the free consultation, before anything is scheduled.
There are instruments for early childhood through young adulthood. The right starting age depends on the concern, and some questions are better answered a year later than a year early. That is worth raising at the consultation.
Yes, conducted directly in Spanish by the evaluator. The instruments used are normed in Spanish rather than translated from English on the day, which matters because a test given in the wrong language measures the language instead of the ability.
If an evaluation will not answer your question, you should hear that before you book one.
