Assessment designed to better understand how your child learns, communicates, adapts, and functions across school, home and social environments. This assessment helps us understand your child's educational and learning needs, as well their strengths and challenges across school, home and social environments.
At Aria Alessia Kids Center, we know that school struggles are not always simple. A child may be bright and verbal, but still have difficulty with attention, flexibility, memory, organization, homework, cognitive processing, friendships, emotional regulation, or classroom participation.
Our Educational & Learning Assessment helps families understand why school may be feel hard and what can be done to help your child succeed.
This program may be helpful for children and teens who:
This program is also helpful for parents and caregivers who:
This assessment helps us better understand how a child learns, thinks, communicates, adapts, and manages everyday school demands.
We look at areas such as:
Some children may struggle with emotions, attention, behavior, or social situations in ways that affect school, friendships, and daily life. This assessment helps us better understand areas such as:
Our Educational & Learning Assessment is designed to be thorough, clear and supportuve for both the child and their family:
We gather information from relevant sources, including parents and school, to understand the individual's academic history, strengtsh and challenges. This helps us identify key areas of concern and clarify what you are hoping to achieve from the assessment.
Assessment sessions are individualized based on the child’s age, learning profile, and areas of concern. Sessions may include structured activities, observation, play-based interaction, academic tasks, problem-solving activities, and conversations designed to better understand how the child learns, communicates, manages emotions, and responds to everyday school and social demands.
Our approach is supportive, child-friendly, and focused on helping children feel comfortable while we gather meaningful information about their strengths and challenges.
Once the assessment is complete, we provide parents with initial verbal feedback, summarizing key findings and addressing immediate questions.
A comprehensive written report is sent, outling the assessment results, detailed insights, and personalized recommendations tailored to the child's unique profile.
For families
One of the most important functions of educational and learning assesments is explanatin. These assessments help inform a more comprehensive understanding of why a child may be struggling despite the best efforts of parents, teachers, and other professionals. Understanding why a student is performing poorly in school is often the first step toward finding a better and more supportive approach.
More than that, understanding a child's learning difficulties, emotional regulation challenges, social-communication difficulties, executive functiong weaknesses, or adaptive skills needs often results in greater empathy for the child. Many students who struggle in school work hard to avoid activities they experience as confusing, overwhelming, frustrating or emotionally exhausting — sometimes by making things difficult for the adults trying to help them. When parents and teachers better understand why certain tasks are difficult, they are often able to respond with greater patience, compassion, and more effective support strategies.
One of the most important gaols of our Educational & Learning Assessment program is to help families and educators develop a clearer understanding of how a child learns, thinks, communicates, adapts and experiences school. By understanding a child's strengths and challenges earlier, families and professionals can better support children before problems become more severe and help them access the tools, accmmodations, and strategies they need to succeed.
Usually takes about 3-4 sessions, depending onthe child's age, attention span, specific needs and areas being explored.
The types of assessments used depend on the child' age, needs and reason for referral. We carefully select tools that provide meaningful insight into learning, behavior, communication, adaptive functioning, social-emotional development and academic performance. Commonly areas assessed include:
Yes, but it is a different kind of test, not like a school test. These assessment are more about identifying their strengths and challenges in order to understand how to best help them succeed. They help us learn how your child learns, thinks, communicates, and experiences school, and not about passing or failing
This assessment helps identify the factors that may be affecting your child’s learning, classroom participation, or school performance. It provides a clearer understanding of your child’s strengths, challenges, and learning style so parents and teachers can better support them both academically and emotionally. The assessment also includes practical recommendations for school accommodations, learning supports, classroom strategies, and next steps that may help your child feel more successful and confident in school.
The assessment can take place at our office or through telehealth, depending on the child’s needs, age, and the type of assessment being completed.
You’ll receive a detailed report and can schedule a follow-up consultation to review the findings and discuss recommendations.
We aim to provide the detailed report within approximately 3 weeks after the assessment.
Yes! Every report includes personalized recommendations for both home and school based on your child’s unique strengths, challenges, and learning profile. Recommendations may include learning strategies, classroom accommodations, organizational supports, and practical ways to support learning and help your child improve confidence, independence, and success in school and at home.
No, this assessment does not diagnose ADHD, ASD or learning disability. However, it can help identify traits or concerns related to these conditions and provide recommendations on whether further diagnostic assessment may be beneficial. If a diagnosis is required, further specialist assessment will be necessary.
Yes. While this assessment does not provide a formal diagnosis, it can help identify children who may benefit from additional services, supports, or a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation. If significant concerns or urgent support needs are identified, the assessment may help prioritize the child on the waitlist so they can be seen sooner for further evaluation or services.