Evaluations
Does my child need an evaluation?
When your child is not meeting developmental milestones or you are concerned about your child’s learning or academic progress, you need to find out why. A comprehensive psychoeducational evaluation will identify your child’s strengths, weaknesses, and needs. A full evaluation will help you develop a plan and provide guidance in making decisions about his/her educational programming.
What will the evaluation include?
A comprehensive evaluation will include: (a) identifying information, (b) presenting problems, symptoms, and parental concerns, (c) early development, family history, school concerns, (d) speech and language development, (e) social development, (f) interviews with parent and child, (g) behavioral observations of the child, (h) tests administered and test results, and (i) recommendations.
What happens in an evaluation?
In an evaluation, information is gathered through formal and informal measures such as background and family history, interviews with parents, students and/or teachers, classroom and/or testing observations, work samples, and formal testing of intelligence/cognitive abilities, language abilities, and academic skills. The testing instruments used are norm-referenced and indicate how a student compares academically to their peers in reading, writing, and math. This type of evaluation is used to determine specific learning disabilities, including dyslexia and dysgraphia.
Do you provide updated evaluations?
The College Board requires evaluations to be up-to-date for accommodations to be considered for College Board exams—including the PSAT/NMSQT or PSAT 10, SAT, and AP Exams, which must first be approved by College Board’s Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD). If a student has a documented disability, R.E.A.D. Evaluation and Dyslexia Center™ can provide updated diagnostic information, such as test scores, narrative information, explaining the history of the student’s impairment, and how the disability currently impacts the student’s need for accommodations, and information about the functional impact of the disability.
