• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Behavioural Disorders
• Developmental Delay
• Dyslexia
• Emotional Disorders and Trauma
• Intellectual Disability
• Learning Difficulty/Disability

Child Assessment & Testing - Clinical and Diagnostic Assessments

Because childhood disorders vary considerably, accurate diagnostic assessment is the first step towards developing strategies that will help. On the following pages we collected a wealth of information about how we can assist children and families experiencing various difficulties. For information about intellectual and educational assessment, please follow the link here.

ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD)

Children with ADHD show developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity and overactivity. These behaviours are not situationally bound and occur in different contexts, such as home, playgrounds, school and public places. Symptoms usually present from an early age, around 4-5 years. Read More

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS (ASD)

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is developmental disorder with varying severity. Autism spectrum disorder is associated with gross impairment in social functioning, language and communication development, restricted, repetitive or stereotyped interests and activities and stereotyped body movements. Read More

BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS

Behavioural or externalising disorders include Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder. Generally behavioural disorders are characterised by hostile and negativistic behaviour, anger, rule breaking, deceit and lack of respect for the right of others. Read More

DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY

Developmental delay refers to a child's functioning that is below the age appropriate level in one or more psychologically important domains. These domains are fine motor skills, gross motor skills, self-help skills, social-emotional skills, receptive language skills and expressive language skills. Read More

DYSLEXIA

Dyslexia is an often life long condition, associated with difficulty reading and decoding words and word meanings. Read More

EMOTIONAL DISORDERS AND TRAUMA

Children with emotional disorders can appear chronically fatigued, unhappy, frightened, worried or agitated. Sometimes emotional disorders go unnoticed by parents or teachers, and children can be also reluctant or unable to talk about difficult emotions. Read More

INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

Intellectual disability refers to a condition associated with a number of cognitive and behavioural symptoms. These symptoms include significantly low general intellectual functioning, notable deficit in adaptive functioning and early onset during the developmental years. Read More

LEARNING DISABILITIES

Learning disability refers to disturbance to the learning process and poor academic performance that is not influenced by cognitive ability, physical disability, emotional difficulties, severe socioeconomic disadvantage or other relevant factors. Read More

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