Child and Adolescent Evaluation Services
The child and adolescent neuropsychology and psychology services at Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Associates offer comprehensive evaluations for children and adolescents with a variety of presenting problems. Assessment often aims to examine the child’s memory, learning abilities, information processing and language as well as helps to guide the treatment planning process. NRA offers comprehensive and detailed assessment reports based on the evaluation, which aims to make treatment recommendations that are informative, strength-based and realistic for the child and family. We also provide testing and academic accommodations for learning disabilities, ADHD, and other disorders for college and graduate boards, other national examinations, and IEP/504 plans.
We perform a variety of specific evaluations for children and adolescents including:
- Academic Accommodations/IEP planning/504 (please refer to Educational Law/Support and Service Planning for School)
- ImPACT testing (baseline and post-concussion testing)
- Evaluations for accommodations for standardized testing including SAT, GRE, ACT, MCATs, LSATs (please refer to Educational Law/Support and Service Planning for School)
- Gifted and Talented/IQ Evaluations
- Best interest of the Child Placement Evaluations
- Child Custody Evaluations
- Parental Alienation Syndrome
- Neuropsychological Evaluations for Personal Injury to the Child including head trauma, concussion, brain injury, cerebral hypoxia, neurotoxic exposure to lead, mercury, etc.,
- Juvenile waiver
- Bonding Evaluations
- ADHD Evaluations
- Learning Disability Evaluations
- Language Disorder Evaluations
- Autism Spectrum Disorder — We are now pleased to announce that we utilize the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-2 (ADOS-2)
- Intellectual Disabilities
Our neuropsychological and psychological evaluations of children and adolescents are designed to answer specific diagnostic questions including, but not limited to, the presence or absence of:
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Concussion/mild TBI/post-concussion syndrome
- Learning Disabilities
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Intellectual Disabilities
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Cognitive Effects of Neurotoxic Exposure
- Language Disorders
- Behavioral Disorders (e.g., Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder)
- Reactive Attachment Disorder
- Anxiety Disorders
- Mood Disorders
ImPACT
Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Associates utilizes the ImPACT Test (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing). It is recommended that children and adolescents take the ImPACT test every two years or prior to the beginning of every contact sport season to determine their premorbid baseline functioning. We also use ImPACT test as one component of the evaluative process to determine the pre- and post-injury condition of the patient, track recovery, direct return to play decisions and assist in treatment recommendations.