Cognitive Assessment.
Ages 6-16 years
The Cognitive assessment provides useful information about your child’s intellectual abilities.
It includes the administration of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition (WISC-V).
What does our typical Cognitive assessment involve?
For further details on the process and how to get started, you can download our information pack here
The Cost.
The Cognitive assessment package price is $1,050*
Package inclusions.
WISC-V appointment 60-75 min
Additional information 60 min
Feedback appointment 60 min
Short diagnostic report 120 min
$250
$200
$200
$400
Did you know?
The WISC-V can be done on its own or combined with the WIAT-III assessment, an academic achievement test.
By comparing a child’s intellect with their academic skills we can ascertain whether a learning disorder, such as, Dyslexia is present.
View the combined (Educational) assessment package HERE.
More on the WISC-V
The WISC-V is generally used by psychologists to provide schools with useful information regarding intellectual deficit or intellectual giftedness so that accommodations, modifications and supports can be coordinated.
It provides a global score, essentially summarising overall results across several types of mental abilities (verbal, spatial, memory, problem solving and work efficiency). In popular culture, this is often referred to as someone’s IQ. It is more involved than that, and not always accurate or appropriate for the context; so, your assessing psychologist will discuss this further with you at your feedback appointment.
Further to providing a global score of performance, the results provide useful information regarding the test taker’s ability to engage in verbal tasks, visual spatial tasks, memory tasks, problem solving and working efficiently.
It is also be used to find the specific intellectual strengths and difficulties that a child may have to see what is going well and what can be worked on, to improve their functioning.
A note on package fees & inclusions
* It’s important to us that we can be transparent with assessment costs upfront. In most cases, everything required for the assessment is covered by components that are included in the package. There may, however, be some cases where particular areas may arise or be highlighted during the assessment process, that were not originally presenting for investigation. The Psychologist may wish to suggest some further testing or assessments to thoroughly cover these additional areas. If this is the case, the recommendations will be made to you, as well as the potential additional fees (if any) and you can decide if you wish to proceed with these additions or not.
All prices quoted are inclusive of GST.
Click HERE for further details on fees and payments.