Assessment Services
We offer psychoeducational and neuropsychological testing for children, teens, and young adults between the ages of 2 and 25. Our assessments provide a comprehensive sense of students’ cognitive, emotional, and learning profile, including any areas of strength and any areas of weakness or growth.
Information is power–and our goal is for you and your child to walk away from an assessment with a clear understanding of who your child is and how best to support and advocate for them as they continue to learn and grow!
About Our Assessments
Our providers can assess for a variety of specific diagnoses (e.g., ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia, anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, and more). We will assign a diagnosis if one is applicable; if no diagnosis is applicable, we’ll say so–and you’ll still gain valuable information about your child’s learning profile and targeted recommendations for support and/or accommodation that will help your child thrive.
How It Works
Step 1:
Schedule a short call with our intake coordinator to share more information about your child, ask any questions, and talk through next steps.
Step 2:
Complete our office paperwork and rating scales about your child’s functioning at home. (We also typically ask that one or more teachers also provide information about your child in the school environment.)
Step 3:
Participate in a parent-only interview to provide background information about your child and your reasons for seeking an assessment at this time. We ask parents to block out two hours for these appointments, although we may not need this full time. These appointments typically occur by telehealth, although you are welcome to come to the office in person should you prefer to do so.
Step 4:
Your child will attend between one and three testing sessions, up to four hours in duration at each appointment.
Please note: testing time varies dramatically from one student to the next, depending on tests to be administered, child’s work pace, fatigue, and ability level. We want to make sure that we are able to see the best of what your child is able to do, so we will stop testing if we feel that students are fatigued and no longer able to do their best work. For this reason, we ask that parents stay in the office or nearby during student testing sessions.
Step 5:
Your clinician will score all measures, aggregate the data, connect with any collateral contacts (teachers, mental health providers, occupational therapists, tutors or educational therapists, speech/language therapists, etc), and put together their findings, report, and recommendations.
This process usually takes one to three weeks after your child’s final testing session. The report will include all testing results and recommendations, including accommodations for classroom and standardized testing settings.
Step 6:
Your clinician will schedule a parent feedback session in order to discuss testing outcomes and recommendations (60-90 minutes), as well as a direct 1:1 feedback session with your child, if appropriate (30-60 minutes).
Step 7:
You will receive a written report summarizing testing results and recommendations within two weeks of your final feedback session.
Step 8 (optional, additional fee):
Your clinician will participate in a debriefing session with your child’s school support team to share results and recommendations.
Our Testing Team
Joe Tarantino, Ph.D.
LICENSED Psychologist AND
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Haley Peele, Ph.D.
licensed psychologist
Lauren R. Bangert, Ph.D.
licensed psychologist
Cost for Assessment
Cost for assessment is a flat rate of $8,000. This accounts for all clinician time spent meeting with parents and child, selecting, administering, and performing tests, scoring and aggregating test results, consulting with teachers or other providers/outside parties (with client consent), writing reports, and providing feedback. For families with more complex demands, we do bill on an hourly basis for additional services exceeding or falling outside of our normal procedures (e.g., separate intake appointments for parents in different households, school debriefing meetings, etc). If your family has PPO health insurance, medical flexible spending (FSA) or health savings accounts (HSA), you may be eligible for reimbursement as a qualified medical expense.
Our assessors also offer cognitive ability (IQ) assessments required for admission to specific schools in the Bay Area. This assessment includes a single child assessment session (approximately 90 to 120 minutes in length) using a Wechsler Intelligence Scale (WISC-V, WAIS-V, WPPSI-IV), brief verbal feedback to support you in understanding scores, and a one-page written summary and score appendix provided to you directly to share with your school. Cost for this assessment is $1800.
Ready to get started?
Our testing team is expanding, and we currently have almost immediate availability for assessment. Please schedule a time to connect by phone with our intake coordinator in order to get started or to ask further questions.