Part of a holistic assessment
Cognitive assessment
A clear profile of a child’s intellectual strengths and challenges: the way their mind is built.
A cognitive assessment profiles the building blocks of thinking, including reasoning, memory and processing, to understand your child’s intellectual capacity and the shape of their abilities.
Understanding this profile helps make sense of everything that sits on top of it: how a child learns, where they shine, and where the world asks more of them than comes easily.
- Verbal comprehensionReasoning with words, language and acquired knowledge.
- Visual-spatial & fluid reasoningProblem solving with patterns, space and novel information.
- Working memoryHolding and manipulating information in mind.
- Processing speedHow efficiently your child takes in and works with information.
A cognitive assessment can help identify intellectual disability or giftedness, and provides the baseline that many other assessments build upon.
A cognitive assessment at Known is never carried out in isolation. It forms part of a single, holistic assessment that Dr Murray designs around your child. If the picture suggests it, she may also explore areas such as learning, attention or development within the same process, rather than sending you away to begin again.
Every child is different, so each assessment is shaped around them. In broad strokes: questionnaires completed by parents and teachers, a clinical interview with parents of around one to two hours, and direct assessment with your child of around two to three hours. Findings are drawn together into a written report with background, results, and practical strategies for home and school.
Begin with understanding.
Tell us a little about your child and what you’re noticing. It takes a few minutes, and it’s the first step toward a clearer picture.
An assessment may explore more than one area
These aren’t separate services to book. Dr Murray draws on them together, in one assessment, as your child needs.