Cognitive assessment

Psychological assessments

Cognitive and other neuropsychological assessments can be conducted by the psychologists from Orchard House. It is our recommendations that when parents have learning difficulties or if they may have borderline difficulties,  cognitive assessments are conducted at the beginning of any parenting assessment. The cognitive assessments provide important information with regard to the capacity to understand verbal feedback. If this information is available we are able to provide appropriate comprehensive assessments.

At Orchard House we have frequently been asked to conduct assessments when parents have already had an assessment of parenting but the cognitive ability of the parents has not been known and the parents have argued that they have not understood the feedback provided.

The following assessments can be provided:

• Comprehensive psychological assessments.

• Reports with regard to psychological functioning and

  parent child attachment and care issues.

• Risk assessments.

• Assessment of special needs, including assessment for

  autistic spectrum disorder and any learning difficulty by

  an appropriately trained clinical psychologist.

• Assessment for learning difficulties and adaptive living

  using The Vineland Assessment in conjunction with

  clinical and other assessments.

Assessments of children

A child can be assessed during community or residential assessment. It is also possible for individual child assessments to be provided. Developmental, cognitive and assessments of attachment can be conducted. Other specific psychological assessments can be provided.