Psychoeducational Assessment

Thousands of children, adolescents, and adults are currently being supported around the globe on the basis of psychoeducational assessments completed by members of the FLEX team.

We approach assessments holistically, aiming to provide valid and reliable assessments of all areas that can impact learning, including:
  • Varied intellectual or learning styles
  • Impairments in clerical processing speed or accuracy
  • Impairments in memory
  • Compromised attention and impulse control systems
  • Weaknesses or deficits in executive functioning
  • Impaired reading due to a range of distinct reading disorders
  • Compromise due to self-regulatory concerns, social functioning, or emotional/behavioural concerns

What type of diagnoses can be made?

While a diagnosis will only be conveyed where appropriate, assessments at FLEX will always provide a roadmap on how to increase success for the client.

When a clear and replicable area of concern emerges, the FLEX team is fully qualified to make relevant diagnosis in order to access additional supports in or out of the classroom.

Diagnoses may include:
  • Learning Disability (Various subtypes)
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  • Conduct Disorder
  • Relevant mood, anxiety, or behavioural control disorders

Mental Health Assessment

While psychoeducational assessments always include a mental health evaluation, some clients need are more focused evaluation aimed at better understanding their emotional experience and what factors are contributing to current and historical difficulties. By better understanding the origin of a clients concerns, FLEX is able to provide more focused treatment recommendations.

The length of a mental health assessment can vary a great deal, but is generally capped (in terms of cost) at 10 hours. Personality disorder assessments may require additional work in order to more fully understand your needs by interviewing others in the clients life so that we may obtain a better understanding of our clients day to day functioning.

Areas of assessment
FLEX's approach to assessment focuses on identifying all potential causes for an clients areas of concern. This "differential" process involves ruling in or out all alternative explanations for one's concerns, including:
  • Depressive Disorders (Major Depression; Bipolar)
  • Anxiety Disorders (Generalized; Social)
  • Somatic and Delusional Disorders
  • Behavioural Disorders
  • Substance Use and Abuse Disorders
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Traumatic Stress Disorders
  • Personality Disorders