Child-Centered Neuropsychological Assessment
Clear answers and personalized, evidence-based guidance to help your child grow with confidence.
What Is Neuropsychological Testing?
Neuropsychological testing is a tool to better understand how a person’s brain works — how they learn, think, pay attention, solve problems, and manage emotions. Rather than focusing on just one skill or concern, a neuropsychological evaluation offers a comprehensive picture of your whole child. It can help answer questions like:
Why is my child struggling in school?
Why do things seem harder for them than for other kids?
Are attention, learning, anxiety, or emotional factors playing a role?
What support do they need?
While a diagnosis may be part of the process, it is not the only — or even the primary — goal of testing. The real value lies in understanding your child’s unique strengths and challenges and using that insight to create a clear, practical roadmap for moving forward.
What Does Testing Involve?
Virtual intake meeting with caregivers (and your child, when appropriate) to understand concerns, history, and goals
4–7 hours of in-person testing, completed in one day when feasible and split into two days if needed. Many activities feel like puzzles, games, or school-based challenges
Questionnaires completed at home by parents, teachers, and sometimes your child to capture functioning across settings
Virtual feedback meeting to review results, answer questions, and discuss next steps
Comprehensive integrated report, typically delivered within one month of the feedback session
What Can Neuropsychological Testing Help With?
Families often seek an evaluation when they have concerns related to:
anxiety, depression, or emotional regulation
attention or focus
executive functioning, organization, or planning
learning differences or academic challenges
uneven, inconsistent, or confusing school performance
social development or peer relationships
limited progress despite emotional, behavioral, or academic interventions
Testing can also be helpful for identifying strengths, clarifying a child’s learning style, or when families simply want a deeper understanding of how their child learns and functions best.
What Will You Walk Away With?
At the end of the evaluation process, families receive more than just test results. You will leave with:
A deeper understanding of your child. As a parent, you are the expert on your child. Our role is to partner with you by using testing to better understand the “why” behind the patterns you may already be seeing at home, at school, or socially.
A roadmap for next steps. Recommendations are specific, practical, and tailored to your child. These may include strategies for home, school supports or accommodations, therapy recommendations, and ways to build on your child’s strengths.
Guidance for school and advocacy. The report can help support conversations with schools about individualized education plans and general accommodations.
Referrals to trusted providers when helpful. When appropriate, we connect families with therapists, tutors, executive functioning coaches, or other specialists.
A strengths-based perspective on your child. Equally important, the evaluation highlights what your child does well and how those strengths can be leveraged to support areas of vulnerability.
For many families, the greatest outcome is moving forward with a clear plan.
A Child-Centered Approach
Every child is different, and so is every testing day. I meet your child where they are, with ample breaks both scheduled and as needed, and the flexibility to extend testing over two days if attention or stamina requires it. The process is designed to help children feel comfortable and supported (and hopefully even have a little bit of fun).
How, not What. My focus is not only on what a diagnosis may be, but on how your child thinks, learns, and functions. While testing may result in a diagnosis, the goal is a far more nuanced and individualized understanding of what underlies that label — and what something like ADHD, autism, or anxiety actually looks like within your child’s cognitive and emotional profile.