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Our Services

How our assessments are run:

Our comprehensive assessments involve clinical interviews with parents, gathering information from school/daycare and involved therapists. Our assessments also include standardised psychometric tests with the child or young person. Our clinicians are skilled in the administration of a range of measures including:  

  • Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2)

  • Monteiro Interview Guidelines for Diagnosing the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition (MIGDAS-2)

  • Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI-IV)

  • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V)

  • Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-III)

  • Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV)

  • MOXO-continuous performance test

  • Griffiths Scales of Child Assessment (Griffiths 3)

  • Conners 4 and Conners Early Childhood

  • Adaptive Behaviour Assessment System (ABAS-3)

  • Vinelands Adaptive Behaviour Scales (Vinelands 3)

  • And more

We are flexible in our approach to how assessments are conducted because we know that there is no 'one size fits all'. Generally our comprehensive are completed over one appointment that can last for 4-6 hours. 

 

From each assessment you receive a comprehensive report detailing assessment results, diagnosis (if applicable) and recommendations to support your child. The assessment includes comprehensive feedback with our clinicians where you have the opportunity to ask any questions. Our reports are often used to support applications for NDIS funding. 

Assessments include :​

  • An individual assessment with your child

  • Comprehensive clinical interview with parents/caregivers

  • Questionnaires and feedback from school and involved therapists

  • Review of reports regarding your child from involved professionals

  • Feedback from the assessing clinician on the results of the assessment

Autism assessments

Autism spectrum is a neurodevelopmental difference often affecting the way a person experiences the world and their interactions with others. Some people on the autism spectrum may have differences in their communication skills, interests, sensory needs, learning profile. Everyone on the Autism Spectrum is difference and a diagnosis can be helpful in better understanding your child and their needs. We provide comprehensive evidence-based autism assessments tailored to your child or young person.

Learning and AD/HD assessments

Are you concerned that your child is not learning at the same level as other kids their age? We provide comprehensive learning assessments to assess for overall cognitive ability, learning disorders (e.g dyslexia) and developmental differences (such as AD/HD) to get to the bottom of why your child is having difficulties.

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  • A child needs to be at least 6 years old before a diagnosis of ADHD will be considered.

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  • Learning disorders can only be diagnosed if the child has had a solid period of evidence based intervention targeting their specific area of difficulty.

Prior to school assessment 

We provide assessments for children with and without developmental differences in the year before they start school to help better understand their learning profile and provide guidance on the best class-type for them. This type of assessment can also assess for Intellectual Disability.

Early Development Assessments

Sometimes young children do not meet their early developmental milestones within the expected timeframes for known or unknown reasons. While every child is different and develops at their own pace, a developmental assessment can give you an idea of your child’s developmental profile across learning, speech and language, hand-eye coordination, personal and social skills and gross motor skills. This type of assessment can also assess for the presence of a Global Developmental Delay. We provide general developmental assessments for children as young as 12 months.​

Assessment Tools

Some of the assessments used at the Child Assessment Clinic include :

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  1. Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2)

  2. Monteiro Interview Guidelines for Diagnosing the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition (MIGDAS-2)

  3. Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI-IV)

  4. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V)

  5. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-III)

  6. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV)

  7. MOXO-continuous performance test

  8. Griffiths Scales of Child Assessment (Griffiths 3)

  9. Conners 4 and Conners Early Childhood

  10. Adaptive Behaviour Assessment System (ABAS-3)

  11. Vinelands Adaptive Behaviour Scales (Vinelands 3)

  12. And more

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