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We offer assessment services for learning difficulties and related skills. This includes attention, behaviour and emotional functioning. This type of assessment is known as psychoeducational assessment. This assessment service is available for children, adolescents and adults.
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Riverdale Centre offers support services to clients and their families with regard to learning support. This includes education about learning issues, consultation regarding program development, and ways of coping with difficulties.

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Assessment

We offer assessment services for learning difficulties and related skills. This includes attention, behaviour and emotional functioning. This type of assessment is known as psychoeducational assessment. Costs and fees for assessments are included on the Fees page.

This assessment service is available for children, adolescents and adults.

Psychoeducational Assessment Overview – Child/Adolescent

The purpose of the psychoeducational assessment for children and adolescents is to explore an individual's abilities for thinking, reasoning, problem-solving and academic skills. Consideration of learning issues and other factors that may be impacting functioning such as attention, emotions and behaviour is included. This type of assessment usually takes 13 - 16 hours to complete, which includes testing, consultation with parents and school personnel, and a written report. Specific requirements will be discussed on a case-by-case basis.

Adult Psychoeducational Assessment

The purpose of the adult psychoeducational assessment is to explore an individual's abilities and skills related to thinking, reasoning, problem-solving and academic skills. This assessment is usually sought when an adult is looking at returning to school, re-training within a profession, or for employment reasons. This type of assessment usually takes 10-12 hours to complete, which includes an interview, testing, consultation with others as appropriate, a feedback meeting, and a written report. Specific requirements will be discussed on a case-by-case basis.

Wise Words

“Discovery of an individual’s inherent intellectual profile, which I believe may be possible, need not serve, then, as a means of pigeonholing the individual or consigning him to an intellectual junkheap; rather, such discovery should provide a means for assuring that every individual has available to him as many options as possible as well as the potential to achieve competence in whatever fields he and his society deem important.”
- Howard Gardener (Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences)