Includes a cognitive and achievement assessment plus a consultation for a school-aged child. It defines the strengths and weaknesses in reading, math, writing, and thinking skills and offers a plan of intervention for the student and the school.

The alternative assessment process at the Thinking Center involves a team of learning specialists, psychologists, pediatricians, social workers and other clinicians. There are five different assessments to choose from to help best meet the needs of your child and family. Assessments are followed by consultations wit each family. The consultation provides language to help families understand exactly what a student's strengths and weaknesses are in order to determine the roadmap of interventions.
The Thinking Center Assessment Options

The Basic Assessment includes a cognitive and achievement assessment plus a consultation for a school-aged child. It defines the strengths and weaknesses in reading, math, writing, and thinking skills and offers a plan of intervention for the student and the school.

The Neuro-Developmental Assessment for Children, Pre-teens and Young Adults provides a learning profile and intervention plan for a student between the ages of 4-14 who has already had other assessments. It includes a detailed parent questionnaire. It does not create a label for a child and it is not an assessment for attention deficits. The components of the assessment involve the following: Fine motor/Graphomotor, Language, Gross Motor, Memory, Visual Processing, Attention Checkpoints and Strategy Usage.

The Neuro-Developmental Assessment for Adolescence provides a learning and cognitive profile and intervention plan for a student between the ages of 13-19. The assessment helps capitalize on how an adolescent is evolving into a thinking young adult. It involves three parts: a self-reporting questionnaire about specific psychosocial and achievement domains, a student interview with a learning specialist who taps into a student’s knowledge, insight and strategy use and cognitive assessment.

The Comprehensive Assessment provides a battery of psychological, attention, cognitive, educational and emotional tests. It supports a family who is searching for a label to receive services from the school system. It includes a child and family interview, parent and teacher rating scales, classroom observations and a teacher interview.

The Tripod Assessment combines the neuro-developmental, achievement, cognitive and attention assessments into a two day experience. A family spends the first day at the Thinking Center with a Learning Specialist, a Developmental Pediatrician, and another appropriate Clinician (Psychologist, Speech/Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Audiologist, Optometrist, Behavioral Therapist, etc.) The tripod team interviews, provides the assessments, and offers appropriate training and counseling to a family. The second day is spent with the family reviewing the patterns discovered during the assessments and presenting the intervention plan.

*The research and assessments are based on best practices advocated by Dr. Mel Levine, Dr. Stephen Norwicki, Dr. Howard Gardner, and Dr. Ken Gibson.

STUDENT SUCCESS PLAN
Student Intervention Plans are the individual blueprints for success. An Intervention Plan at The Thinking Center can involve as little as 12 hours of direct training to 60 hours. We offer a continuum of services for students based on the neuro-developmental constructs developed by Dr. Mel Levine. They include: attention, memory, sequencing, language, visual processing, motor functions, organization and strategies, and higher order cognition. The goals of the Intervention Plans are to develop the underlying skills necessary for optimal learning, socialization, and positive self-worth.

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