Cognitive Assessment
Evolving Families offers cognitive assessments for children, young people and adults.
A cognitive assessment helps us understand how a person thinks, learns, reasons, processes information and solves problems. It can provide a clearer picture of cognitive strengths and difficulties, and how these may affect learning, education, work or everyday life.
Cognitive assessment can be helpful when there are questions about intellectual functioning, learning profile, school progress, workplace functioning, processing speed, working memory or differences between ability and day-to-day performance.
A cognitive assessment can be completed as a standalone assessment or included as part of a wider autism, ADHD, neurodevelopmental or psychological assessment.
Child and Young Person Cognitive Assessments
A cognitive assessment for a child or young person can help build a clearer understanding of how they learn, reason, remember information and process tasks.
This can be particularly helpful where there are concerns about school progress, learning profile, attention, working memory, processing speed, exam access arrangements or differences between ability and classroom performance.
The assessment includes
- WISC assessment for children and young people under 16
- One-to-one tasks with a trained clinician
- Review of cognitive strengths and difficulties
- Consideration of learning, attention and processing needs
- Feedback appointment
- Comprehensive written report
- Recommendations for school, home or further support
We work with families to make the assessment process as comfortable as possible. The tasks are structured and varied, and the results are explained in a way that is clear and practical.
A cognitive assessment may also be included within a wider autism or ADHD assessment where it would help provide a fuller understanding of the child’s needs.
Price: from £795
Adult Cognitive Assessments
An adult cognitive assessment can help clarify cognitive strengths and difficulties that may affect study, work, daily functioning or wider psychological understanding.
This may be helpful where there are questions about learning profile, intellectual functioning, attention, working memory, processing speed or reasonable adjustments in education or employment.
The assessment includes
- WAIS assessment for individuals aged 16 and over
- One-to-one tasks with a trained clinician
- Review of cognitive strengths and difficulties
- Consideration of functional impact in everyday life
- Feedback appointment
- Comprehensive written report
- Recommendations for study, work or further support
The aim is to provide a clear and useful understanding of cognitive functioning, rather than simply providing test scores.
Price: from £795
