At Daystar Psychology Clinic, we offer a broad range of child and adolescent psychological assessments. Cognitive (intellectual) and educational assessments can provide an instrumental understanding into your child’s development and functioning that relate to their school achievement. A formal assessment is administered when there is a particular concern about your child’s development, that demands a more thorough evaluation to inform appropriate support mechanisms and decisions regarding your child’s learning program. At Daystar Psychology Clinic, we provide a variety of cognitive and educational assessment packages for children and adolescents. In addition, we provide comprehensive assessments reports, with individually tailored recommendations for both home and school to parents at the end of the assessment procedure. 

Assessments offered include:

  • Cognitive strengths and difficulties (intelligence IQ testing)
  • Academic skills and learning
  • Social-emotional skills
  • Adaptive and functional skills
  • Challenging behaviours 
  • Emotional problems

We utilise only standardised and validated psychometric assessment procedures that are administered in collaboration with parents, teachers and significant professionals to allow for invaluable insight into your child’s areas of strengths and areas of concern.

We use the following psychology testing tools to conduct our detailed assessments for educational, developmental and behavioural concerns) for children and adolescents:

  • Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children – THE NEW Fifth Edition (WISC-V)
  • Weschler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence – The latest Fourth Edition (WPPSI-IV)
  • Weschler Individual Achievement Test – The NEW Third Edition (WIAT-III)
  • Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales – Third Edition (VABS-3)
  • Achenbach Child Behaviour Checklists (CBCL)
  • Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-42)
  • A range of many other variety of Depression and Anxiety measures for children and adolescents

Please contact us if you would like more information about how an assessment may assist your child and what the assessment process involves.