Psychological Assessment for Children
A deeper and more holistic understanding of your child, their mind, and their social-emotional well being.
A Learning Journey
You may have gotten here because you are looking for a diagnosis related to your child’s education or other needs. But your child isn’t a diagnosis, they are a wonderfully complex human being. Our assessments go beyond just behaviors and functioning to include the whole experience of the child.
The scores of the assessment give us a lot of information, but we get far more information from looking at their entire environment by collaborating with the child, their teachers, and you
A Framework to Help You Understand Your Child and Answer:
Does my child have a learning disability?
Do they have ADHD?
Are they autistic?
Is my child experiencing depression or anxiety?
Why is my child struggling?
Why do we feel helpless to support them?
What kind of future will they have?
Are we missing something?
Your Child’s Developmental Journey
With development, come many struggles. Developing requires doing lots of new things - oftentimes things we’ve never done before. When it goes well, people take risks to try new things and persist through the inevitable setbacks. Children’s development is no different. Parents understand this in a very deep way because they are with their child at each new developmental step and challenge. But what can a parent do when they see their child struggle mightily and still not move forward - or, worse, when the child seems to have lost faith in themselves and their future?
What Assessments Usually Give
This journey usually begins with questions as the parent tries to understand what is giving their child trouble. These questions may show up as questions about diagnoses:
Does my child have a learning disability?
Do they have ADHD?
Are they autistic?
Is my child experiencing depression or anxiety?
What Tide Pools Adds
And while these diagnostic categories are important - they don’t tell the whole story. They also don’t get at the underlying questions parents often have:
Why is my child struggling?
Why do we feel helpless to support them?
What kind of future will they have?
Are we missing something?
A quality assessment will look at all of these questions because a quality assessment will offer more than diagnosis - it will offer insight that will set the stage for new ways of thinking about a person and new opportunities for growth and flourishing.
An Example of Our Work
How does an assessment do this? Download the story of Xander to learn more…