Evaluation Services

Evaluation services assist families with understanding their child's learning profile and educational programming needs. We provide comprehensive evaluations that encompass a range of abilities, including:

• Speech-Language: Speech-language evaluations assess a range of spoken communication skills, including: listening/language processing, vocabulary knowledge and retrieval, verbal memory, spoken language formulation, social pragmatics, pre-reading/spelling linguistic skills, and speech articulation abilities. Evaluations are designed to reveal students' linguistic strengths and areas of need as well as help parents and educators understand how these strengths and needs affect performance in and out of school. Comprehensive recommendations tailored to your child's needs are provided within a detailed written report.


• Writing: Writing evaluations examine spelling, mechanics, handwriting fluency, sentence structure, paragraph and/or essay level text structure, revising, editing and organizational approaches to the writing process. Evaluations are designed to explore the interaction of language, cognitive, executive functions, and other skills that influence various stages of the writing process. Specific areas of strength, breakdown, and need are identified, and comprehensive recommendations tailored to your child's educational programming needs are provided within a detailed written report
• Reading: Reading evaluations examine phonological and phonemic awareness, sight word recognition, word attack/decoding, oral and silent reading fluency, and reading comprehension at the word, sentence, and passage levels. Evaluations are designed to reveal students' strengths and areas of need in all aspects of reading. Comprehensive recommendations tailored to your child's educational programming needs are provided within a detailed written report.
• Combination:
  • Speech-Language & Reading
  • Speech-Language & Writing
  • Reading & Writing
  • Speech-Language, Reading & Writing
• Occupational Therapy: We offer comprehensive consultations for the purpose of assessing the motor abilities that underlie handwriting and daily tasks that require motor strength, dexterity, and coordination as well as visual  processing.  These assessments are not based on formal/standardized tests.  Rather, they incorporate a variety of informal tasks that are typical of the perceptual and fine-motor demands of school and home.  Clinical impressions and extensive recommendations for school and home are shared with parents at the time of the assessment.