
Assessment Centre

Cognitive Assessment
IQ tests, Giftedness, Intellectual Disability
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What does an IQ test involve?
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An IQ test is used to understand how your brain works and to identify your thinking strengths and challenges.
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The test used depends on your age, we have access to the WPPSI, WISC, and WAIS.
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You will be asked to do tasks involving speaking/listening, visual processing, problem solving, memory, and working to a time limit.
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The tests take between 1 - 2 hours but are usually finished in around 90 minutes.
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We will also complete an interview to understand your history, needs, and goals for the assessment.
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What can a cognitive assessment identify?
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Difficulties with thinking skills e.g. Intellectual Disability, Traumatic Brain Injury, Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, or Microcephaly.
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High cognitive performance (giftedness).
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Areas of strengths and challenges that may need to be supported.
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What else do I need to know for assessments of difficulties like an Intellectual Disability?
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Assessment of difficulties will include testing to determine if their thinking skills are significantly lower than other people their age.
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An interview will be conducted to help us identify risk factors, history of challenges, developmental milestones, and current level of function.
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Level of function is assessed through interview and questionnaires.
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Areas of function include things like the ability to move, learn, speak, interact with peers, and do self-care tasks like eating and dressing.
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What else do I need to know for assessments of high performance (giftedness)?
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In testing we identify giftedness through scores that are significantly higher than other people the same age.
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Only 1 out of 100 people will score in this range and it isn't possible to guarantee the outcome of testing.
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An interview will be conducted to help us understand the experiences you have noticed that are consistent with high performance.
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What ages do you assess?
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We are able to do IQ testing for people from 2.5 - 90 years old.