IQ Assessments and Assessments for Academic Achievement
To help your child achieve their best, it is helpful to understand their strengths with how they learn, process information, store memory and interpret different types of information, as well as any challenges they experience in these same areas. By understanding your child’s strengths and challenges, you can create strategies to help maximise their learning outcomes and ensure they feel success within their learning experiences.
What is Involved?
There are two different types of assessment that can help guide your child’s learning experience – an IQ assessment and an Assessment of Academic Achievement.
The IQ assessment typically involves completing one of the Weschler Intelligence assessments for the target age group, providing an overall IQ score. The assessment provides scores on different domains related to intelligence. These domains are:
- Verbal Comprehension
- Processing Speed
- Working Memory
- Perceptual Reasoning (Adult IQ assessments only)
- Visual-Spatial (Child IQ assessments only)
- Fluid Reasoning (Child IQ assessments only)
The Assessment of Academic Achievement however involves completing the Weschler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition (WIAT-III). This assessment provides scores assessing the following domains:
- Mathematics
- Reading
- Writing
- Oral Language
How Long Does the Assessment Take?
Completion of either assessment involves completing a pre-assessment questionnaire along with a clinical interview, followed by the completion of the relevant assessment. While this is typically completed over a single 3 hour appointment, it can be split across 2 days if there are concerns about the length of time.
After the assessment is completed, the Psychologist will finalise a report explaining the results and recommended strategies, and organise a follow up session to go through the report with you.
Why Would I Need An Assessment?
The primary reason someone would seek out one or both of these assessments is to help maximise their learning potential and to better understand their strengths and weaknesses with how they interpret, process and store information. The results and recommendations from these assessments can help the individual to implement strategies at home, school or the workplace, where challenges may be experienced, or identify ways to build upon identified strengths.
Sometimes, these assessments may also be needed as part of applications to specialist learning programs. However, should you be seeking a diagnosis or are concerned that any learning difficulties may actually be due to an underlying condition, we recommend instead completing a diagnostic assessment which provides a more thorough review and additional testing to identify the presence of an underlying condition.
How Much does the Assessment Cost?
The cost of either assessment is $1100, which covers the assessment on the day, the follow up session to discuss the report, as well as time taken to complete the report, score results and review and information sent through.
If you would like both assessments combined, the cost comes to $1540, which allows for additional time to complete the extra assessment, score the results and write the report.