Comprehensive Psychological, Educational and Behavioural Assessment

Christine Grant provides comprehensive cognitive, educational, and behavioural assessment for children and adolescents. These assessments can be used to identify learning disabilities, facilitate special education services, accommodations in the classroom, as well as for diagnosis and treatment.
Christine Grant  has experience with and training in:
•    Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
•    Autism Spectrum Disorders
•    Anxiety
•    Depression
•    Developmental Disorders
•    Learning Disabilities (such as Dyslexia, Numeracy and Writing Disorders)
•    Processing Deficits
•    Sensory Integration Disorders

Early Childhood and School Age Assessment

An educational assessment is the integration of neuropsychological and educational principles to the assessment and intervention processes to facilitate learning and behaviour within the school and family systems.  This type of  evaluation assesses a child’s functioning in major areas of higher-level brain functioning including memory, attention, impulse control, speed and efficiency of mental processing, language, visual-spatial skills, visual-motor coordination, planning, and organization. Evaluation includes a detailed investigation of a child’s developmental, medical, social, and psychological history and access to an extensive array of specific tests. Results obtained in a school psychological evaluation provide the information needed to generate a very comprehensive description of a child’s cognitive abilities, learning style, current needs and specific interventions needed. The report can be used to assist in the application for funding for children with disabilities, where applicable.

Behavioural Assessments

Assessments for children who are suspected of having developmental delays, Autism, oppositional behaviour problems or Attention Deficit involve clinical interviews with parents, structured observations at the clinic, and observations of the child in the their kinder or school settings. Parents and teachers, or carers, are asked to complete standardised questionnaires to gather comprehensive information about the child which is then presented in a report for referring paediatricians who in conjunction with other professionals confirm the diagnosis.

Adult Assessments

Christine Grant can also provide assessments of cognitive abilities, learning disabilities and assessments for Autism and ADHD for adults.

Assessment Tools

As a Registered Psychologist, Christine has undertaken training that enables her to conduct formal cognitive, behavioural, educational and autism assessments.

Assessments tools Christine uses include:

• Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale, 2nd Edition (ADOS 2)
• Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI)
• Childhood Autism Rating Scale, 2nd Edition (CARS 2)
• Child Behaviour Checklist
• Conner’s, 3rd Edition
• Neale Analysis of Reading, 3rd Edition
• South Australian Spelling Test
• Social Responsiveness Scale, 2nd Edition
• Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence,– 4th Edition (WPPSI-IV)
• Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children,– 4th Edition (WISC-IV)
• Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, 4th Edition (WAIS-IV)
• Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 2nd Edition (WIAT-II)
• Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scale, 2nd Edition
• Beck Youth Inventories, the Beck Depression Scale-II