Educational Assessment & Consultation

As and outside-the-box thinker, you, or your child, have felt frequently misunderstood in school. Being strongly talented in some areas, people don’t understand why seemingly basic things seem difficult. Instead of finding strengths and supporting challenges, they have given messages of “you’re not living up to your potential.”

I don’t really believe that laziness is a thing, and if someone is not performing up to expectations then we need to either revise our expectations and/or support them in their challenges. When we fully understand our strengths and challenges we can use our strengths more effectively and create systems to manage our weaknesses.

Combining my years in special education as a school psychologist in the school system with my experience working with gifted and twice-exceptional thinkers, I help outside the box thinkers identify their processing strengths and weaknesses and come up with tools and strategies to help them more effectively navigate work, school, and life with a better understanding of what works for them, and what does not.

Educational Consultation

Already have an evaluation but not sure how to interpret it? Curious about learning and processing strengths and weaknesses that might be found in past testing or new self-ratings? Consultation rate is $150 an hour, and usually range between $300-$500 depending on amount of material to review.

• Cognitive Processing rating scales that can be completed by self, parents and/or teachers as desired.

• Identification of any pattern of processing strengths and weaknesses on existing testing (relevant if there is a large spread in test scores – if all test scores are average or close to each other, no likely patterns will emerge).

• Handouts with visuals to explain processing areas of concern if they come up.

• Recommendations for relevant accommodations and modifications for specific areas of weakness.

• If relevant, support you with developing questions for follow up with the student’s school/evaluation team so you can better understand the results.

• Recommendations for possible testing areas that might give more relevant data.

I cannot give legal advice as districts and states vary widely in their practices.

Comprehensive Educational Assessment

I offer comprehensive educational evaluations to identify learning strengths and weaknesses and make educational recommendations for students. A Comprehensive Educational Assessment is set at a flat rate of $1500 based on average time to complete in order to allow flexibility without added costs (Only Cognitive Assessment is $750)

• Information processing and academic achievement.

• Interview and questionnaires.

• Overview of processing strengths and weaknesses.

• Educational recommendations.

• 1 call to go over the results and answer questions.

• 1 follow-up coaching call to put strategies into practice.

Who And What Can I Assess?

I can assess information processing and academic achievement as relevant to the identification of Specific Learning Disabilities in the state of Washington as well as identifying giftedness. I can also identify processing strengths and weaknesses and make educational recommendations based on that profile of strengths and weaknesses.

I cannot make medical or mental health diagnoses such as ADHD or ASD, though I can identify information processing patterns and executive functioning weaknesses that help lead to accurate diagnosis and understand how the brain works better. If you have a pre-12 grade child and believe your child would be eligible for special education services, I recommend pursuing a special education assessment through your child’s school district.