A cognitive assessment is a comprehensive and standardised test which assesses your child’s general thinking and reasoning skills. At Every Mind, we use the WISC-V or WPPSI (depending on age) which are fun, iPad based test. It uses different activities and puzzles to assess various aspects of your child’s cognitive abilities. 

We will invite you and your child into the clinic for an initial 1 hour meeting before completing the cognitive assessment. This session will be used to ask lots of questions about your child, what has led you to pursuing a cognitive assessment, and what are the areas of concern. We will ask questions about your child's early development and look to engage your child's school to understand their concerns and observations. We will think together about how we might adapt the assessment itself to enable your child to feel comfortable and calm. We might also think if there are any supplementary tests that we can do to further understand your child's cognitive abilities. 

The assessment generally takes 2 hours to complete, sometimes slightly less. Two hours is a long time to concentrate so the child is always offered a break and a snack half way through.

Your child can be any age. We have a cognitive assessment for all ages of young people and lots of experience of conducting the assessment across the age range.

A cognitive assessment can be extremely helpful for you and for school to understand a little more about how your child thinks and make sense of the world around them. This test can give you insight into how your child processes verbal and visual information, how your child problem solves, how quickly your child processes information, and how they hold information in their short term memory. 

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Absolutely! As is ethos in the clinic, the report will focus on your child's strengths and needs within their cognitive profile. It will have a list of recommendations to support the areas of needs.