Dyslexia screening helps provide risk assessment, strength of risk, and interpretive information for individuals who may have dyslexia.

• Phonemic Proficiency – measures speed and accuracy of phonological manipulation
• Orthographic Fluency - measures speed of irregular word reading
• Decoding Fluency - measures speed of pseudoword reading
• Sentence Writing Fluency - measures speed of sentence composition
• Orthographic Choice - measures recognition spelling skills

Psycho-educational evaluations examine cognitive, academic and adaptive aspects of an individual to help in identifying the presence of a learning disorder. This type of evaluation is appropriate for determining dyslexia or other related learning disorders.

• Evaluation of cognitive ability
• Assessment of academic skills
• Insurance will not cover, but you will receive a superbill to submit to your insurance company

Pre Adoption Psychological evaluation may be a requirement for international adoption. The purpose is to determine the adoptive parents’ current levels of social, emotional, and behavioral functioning in regard to becoming adoptive parents.

• Clinical interview
• Personality assessment
• Assessment of resiliency and coping skills

Psychological Evaluation is a more clinically oriented evaluation to look at personality or temperament and clinical syndromes as they relate to a person’s functioning. This type of evaluation is useful for the clarification of diagnoses and garnering of treatment recommendations. The measures used depend on the age of the child.

• Developmental Screening from 10 days of age
• Toddler assessment from 2 ½ years of age
• School age assessment from 5 years of age
• Young adult to older adult assessment

The Marschak Interaction Method (MIM) is a technique for the observation of adult and child as they perform a series of structured tasks together. The MIM is useful for:

• clinical evaluation of birth/adoptive parent-child relationships
• ongoing evaluation/progress monitoring of interventions
• assessing the appropriateness of placement with foster or adoptive parents
• evaluating the relationship between a child and stepparent
• help answer questions about how parents interact when relating to their one child and how two or more sibling can elicit different responses in the same set of parents
• teachers and child care workers when there are problems in their relationship to particular children