Thorough psychoeducational evaluations are necessary to diagnose AD/HD and learning problems. Comprehensive evaluations identify or rule out other important problems and contribute to more accurate behavioral planning for school and home interventions.
Dr. Butnik collaborates with Dr. Karen Rooney, Ph. D, an educational diagnostician, to provide these thorough psychoeducational evaluations. Dr. Rooney's website contains more detailed information: Educational Enterprises, Inc.
Collaborative Comprehensive Evaluations provide a “whole child” approach that is designed to assess attention, executive function, social-emotional well-being, cognitive processing and achievement during the same evaluation. This evaluation provides findings from both the psychological and educational perspective, which serves to understand the overlap between learning and attention disorders.
The psychological evaluation process begins with a meeting with parents. In this meeting we gain a clear referral picture and gather developmental and family histories. We also review previous evaluations and school records. Behavior checklists are distributed for parents and teachers to complete.Evaluation results are shared with parents in a feedback session and a thorough report is prepared for parents, school and primary care physician.
If indicated, we will refer clients to other professionals for more detailed assessments. ADDVANTAGE coordinates with speech and language therapists, audiologists, educational specialists, physical and occupational therapists, neurologists and psychiatrists.