An educational psychology assessment involves a series of different activities to help identify a child’s or adolescent’s specific learning style, strengths, and areas of need. This knowledge helps to generate suitable recommendations for teachers at school and parents to meet those learning needs of school aged children and teenagers.
The one-on-one assessment setting provides an opportunity to gather information about a child’s behaviours, attitudes, attention, concentration, all of which are likely to impact on and influence learning. These factors can influence motivation and the desire to accept and approach a challenge. It also affects the manner in which a child/young person approaches a task as well as the manner in which they structure their responses. American Wellness Center based in Dubai Healthcare City specializes in One-on-one assignments for children.
If you feel that your child is not developing/learning as they should, and the strategies put in place to help your child’s teacher/assistant teacher/nursery teacher are not making a difference, the next step may be an educational psychologist’s assessment
Usually, these Assessments are organised at our clinic. Our highly qualified child psychologist, neuropsychologist or educational psychologist at AWC Dubai are experienced to collect relevant information and discuss with your child, with you and his/her teachers, and observe the child in different settings. They will also look at classroom work details, talk to your child and give them some tests to assess on skills and intellectual development. Our child neuro psychologists are well trained to put the children at ease and relate to them during these sessions, and most children find the session a positive experience with an element of challenge or fun involved somewhere in the procedure.
Our skilled educational psychologists are highly professional and use evidence-based techniques to produce a report giving an overview of your child's strengths and weaknesses. This can also give recommendations for teaching strategies or additional materials to be used for your child, or advice on suitable school activity types for your child.
Based on the findings and results they may refer to other professionals such as a speech and language therapist, occupational therapist, optometrist, or a paediatrician, as well as source help such as the child and family consultation services.
The assessment will take 3-3.5 hours of testing. The time a child or adolescent takes to complete the assessment varies according to a multitude of factors such as attentional ability, motivation, anxiety symptoms etc.
Early detection and early interventions are the key to success and avoid difficulties in self-esteem and self-confidence issues.
We encourage our clients to stay in contact with your child’s educational psychologist and follow their treatment plan (if any) even after the assessment for optimum results. The need and situations may keep changing and as your child’s psychologist knows the history, they are in a better position to help you and your child in certain situations.
Give us a call today or visit us down at Dubai Healthcare City.
