Gain a detailed understanding of your child’s cognitive and academic profile with a comprehensive psychometric assessment. Learn more about our services.
Psychometric assessment is a scientific approach to understanding a child’s cognitive, behavioural, and academic development. These assessments measure abilities such as memory, problem-solving, and reasoning, offering valuable insights into a child’s unique profile. At Clarity Child Psychology, operating in Sydney’s northern suburbs and the Inner West, we specialise in comprehensive assessments designed for children and adolescents. Our assessments help to provide a clearer understanding for supporting each child’s developmental journey.
Psychometric assessments help pinpoint specific areas where a child excels and where they may need additional support. By understanding these strengths and weaknesses, parents and educators can tailor learning approaches to suit the child’s unique needs, fostering a more effective and personalised educational experience.
Psychometric assessments provide an important component the data needed for accurate diagnoses of specific learning disorders and attentional difficulties.
Psychometric assessment can identify children who demonstrate exceptional cognitive abilities and talents. Identification of giftedness allows for the implementation of specialised programs and enrichment opportunities appropriate to a child’s level of cognitive ability and academic achievement.
Information about an individual child’s profile obtained from a psychometric assessment can be shared with school staff to inform appropriate teaching and learning strategies to support academic development.
Campbell Jensen-Robilliard | Registered Psychologist | PSY0001898055
Campbell Jensen-Robilliard has over ten years experience in administering, interpreting, and reporting on psychometric assessment. He has worked in a number of schools as both a teacher and psychologist in the Department of Education and the independent school sector and is well-versed in the regulations by which these settings are bound, particularly with regard to adjustments and provisions for children with complex neurological profiles.
Campbell’s tertiary qualifications in psychology include
Campbell is a registered psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency with general registration (PSY0001898055). Campbell’s philosophy of assessment is to operate holistically and integrate a multitude of data points to effectively represent a child’s profile.
In his leisure time you’ll most likely find Campbell sitting at a piano, playing futsal, or trying to keep up with his daughter.
Psychometric testing helps identify a child’s cognitive strengths and areas that are less well-developed, providing valuable insights into how they process information and approach learning tasks. Information obtained through psychometric assessment is highly individualised and in-depth, allowing for a more comprehensive understanding of how best to support a child’s learning journey. Normative samples attached to psychometric assessment tools allow for the comparison of an individual child against an extensive population of similarly-aged children.
Assessment of academic achievement can offer insight into a child’s development of key learning areas like reading, written expression, and numeracy. The individual nature of achievement testing allows for a highly granular and detailed understanding of a child’s academic skillset, which can point to strengths to leverage and areas to target for support or intervention. As with cognitive assessment, extensive normative samples associated with achievement testing tools allow for comparison against a much wider population of similarly-aged children.
Psychometric assessment results provide teachers and schools with the information needed to make informed adjustments to classroom instruction. These insights allow for learning strategies, targeted interventions, and practical classroom accommodations that are sensitive to the individual child’s profile.
The process of conducting a psychometric assessment will vary depending on the nature of the referral, but key steps in the process will likely include:
In which background information is obtained. Typically this takes up to one hour.
Depending on the nature of the referral, this could include cognitive assessment, achievement testing, and behavioural assessment.
Owing to the technical nature of assessment material, this step of the process can take between 1 and 3 weeks. The timeframe will be specified in the initial interview.
An appointment to share the psychometric assessment report, discuss key findings, and allow time for clarification is the final step in the assessment process. This feedback session typically takes between 1 to 1.5 hours.
We only use assessment tools with extensive research backings, and where possible, Australian norms.
The WISC-V is the industry-standard assessment of cognitive ability for children in Australia aged 6 – 17 years of age. It provides an indication of overall cognitive ability, as well as performance on five domains thought to comprise cognitive ability.
The WIAT-III is the industry-standard assessment of academic achievement that covers ages 4 through 50. It provides an indication of performance in key academic areas including reading, written expression, numeracy, and oral expression.
The TEA-Ch measures children’s abilities to selectively attend, sustain or divide their attention between two tasks, to switch their attention from one task to another, and to withhold verbal and motor responses. It is designed to assess children between the ages of 6 to 15 years.
The Conners 4th Edition provides a comprehensive assessment of symptoms and impairments associated with ADHD and common co-occurring problems and disorders in children and youth aged 6 to 18 years.
The Comprehensive Executive Function Inventory is a comprehensive behavior rating scale of executive function strengths and weaknesses in children and youth aged 5 to 18 years.
The cost of an individual psychometric assessment will vary between $900 to $1,300 depending on the number of assessment tools required to address the referral question. Please get in touch at contact@claritychildpsychology.com.au to discuss further.
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Campbell is available during weekends and school holiday periods to conduct assessment. Campbell operates out of offices in Petersham, West Ryde, and Pymble.
