Cognitive Assessments and Learning Assessments
How does a Cognitive Assessment help?
The term 'Cognitive' refers to how the human brain thinks, learns, remembers, and processes information.
Understanding more about Cognitive ability profiles helps to understand how we manage everyday life - how a child manages in school, and how as adults we function in the workplace.
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Our Clinical Psychologists assess each individual using a wide range of Clinical tools to gain a full understanding of both strengths and needs.
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Learning difficulties such as Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Slow Processing can be identified and strategies for support developed.
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We are able to gain detailed profiles of an individual’s thinking, reasoning and memory skills.
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Cognitive assessments allow us to reach a good understanding of strengths and differences across several areas of cognitive functioning.
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This helps guide supports and adaptations in school, in the workplace and in everyday activities such as organisation, planning and remembering.
Verbal Comprehension
Understanding spoken information, reasoning with language and
expressing ideas clearly
Visual Spacial Skills
Solving visual problems, recognising patterns and thinking without relying on language
Fluid Reasoning Skills
The ability to think logically, recognise patterns, and solve new problems without relying on past learning
Working Memory
The ability to register, hold, and mentally manipulate visual and auditory information in real time
Processing Speed
How fast and accurately an individual can scan, identify, and execute simple visual information
Cognitive assessments contain a number of different components looking at:
We can also look at the relationship between ability and achievement which helps identify specific learning difficulties such as Dyslexia and Dyscalculia.
Parent
The report was extensive and thorough with all information needed to support my daughter.
Parent
The staff were so friendly, professional and knowledgeable and mad the whole experience easy. I could not recommend them more. The staff were compassionate at all times and offered advice when needed.
Client
I used this service due to intolerable NHS waiting times to be assessed for ASD. The service I received was outstanding.
Client
Such thorough individual assessments, compassionate and understanding clinicians.
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