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Cognitive/IQ Assessments, Giftedness, Intellectual Disability

Cognitive Assessment

IQ tests, Giftedness, Intellectual Disability

01

What does an IQ test involve?

  • An IQ test is used to understand how your brain works and to identify your thinking strengths and challenges. 

  • The test used depends on your age, we have access to the WPPSI, WISC, and WAIS. 

  • You will be asked to do tasks involving speaking/listening, visual processing, problem solving, memory, and working to a time limit.

  • The tests take between 1 - 2 hours but are usually finished in around 90 minutes. 

  • We will also complete an interview to understand your history, needs, and goals for the assessment. 

02

What can a cognitive assessment identify?

  • Difficulties with thinking skills e.g. Intellectual Disability, Traumatic Brain Injury, Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, or Microcephaly. 

  • High cognitive performance (giftedness).

  • Areas of strengths and challenges that may need to be supported.  

03

What else do I need to know for assessments of difficulties like an Intellectual Disability?

  • Assessment of difficulties will include testing to determine if their thinking skills are significantly lower than other people their age. 

  • An interview will be conducted to help us identify risk factors, history of challenges, developmental milestones, and current level of function. 

  • Level of function is assessed through interview and questionnaires. 

  • Areas of function include things like the ability to move, learn, speak, interact with peers, and do self-care tasks like eating and dressing. 

04

What else do I need to know for assessments of high performance (giftedness)?

  • In testing we identify giftedness through scores that are significantly higher than other people the same age. 

  • Only 1 out of 100 people will score in this range and it isn't possible to guarantee the outcome of testing. 

  • An interview will be conducted to help us understand the experiences you have noticed that are consistent with high performance.

05

What ages do you assess?

  • We are able to do IQ testing for people from 2.5 - 90 years old. 

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