The name honest psychology came about because that’s what we are all about, being honest with ourselves, and our clients, to provide an authentic no frills approach. Honest aims to provide a safe space where you can explore your difficulties, learn some new coping strategies, or just have a little chat in a non judgemental space. We offer a warm, empathetic, and personalised approach, to ensure your needs are met and you feel comfortable telling us your story. Our values reside in being honest, open, empathetic, relatable, and inclusive to all and we strive to share these values with you.
Cognitive IQ and Educational Learning Assessments
Identify Learning Difficulties in Children and Get Recommendations for School
A cognitive and educational assessment explores a child’s learning profile, to identify strengths and weaknesses, and learning disorders, which may be impacting upon their academic ability. By exploring a child’s unique learning profile, this can assist parents and teachers to target a child’s individual learning needs, and make informed decisions regarding additional support.
If you have further concerns regarding your child's attention, we can also provide assessments for ADHD, along with exploring and other related factors which may be impacting upon your child overall well-being.
Assessments are completed in person in Papamoa Bay of Plenty. Tauranga
What is a Cognitive and Educational Assessment?
A cognitive and educational assessment is comprised of the WISC-V and the WIAT-III. The assessment is an individually administered intelligence test for children between the ages of 6 – 16 years old and can take up to 3 hours to complete. The assessment can identify difficulties with learning including Dyslexia (reading impairments), Dysgraphia (writing impairments), and Dyscalculia (mathematics impairments), applications for learning accommodations, and special assessment conditions for exams during high school
WISC-V (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition)
The WISC-V (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition) is an intelligence test that measures a child’s intellectual ability across 5 cognitive domains, these domains include;
Verbal Comprehension
Measures a child’s ability to access and apply acquired word knowledge. Specifically, this score reflects one’s ability to verbalise meaningful concepts, think about verbal information and express oneself using words.
Visual Spatial
Measures a child’s ability to evaluate visual details and understand visual-spatial relationships to construct geometric designs from a model. This skill requires visual-spatial reasoning, integration and synthesis of part-whole relationships, attentiveness to visual detail, sometimes using hand-eye coordination, and working quickly and efficiently with visual information.
Fluid Reasoning
Measures a child’s ability to detect the underlying conceptual relationship among visual objects and use reasoning to identify and apply rules. Identification and application of conceptual relationships requires inductive and quantitative reasoning, broad visual intelligence, simultaneous processing and abstract thinking.
Working Memory
Measures a child’s ability to register, maintain and manipulate visual and auditory information in conscious awareness. These tasks measure one’s skills in attention, concentration and mental reasoning as well as visual and auditory discrimination. This skill is closely related to learning and achievement.
Processing Speed
Measures a child’s speed and accuracy of visual identification, decision-making and decision implementation. Performance is related to visual scanning, visual discrimination, short-term visual memory, visuomotor coordination and concentration. This skill may be important to a child’s development in reading and ability to think quickly in general.
Full Scale IQ
The Full-Scale IQ score is derived from seven subtests and summarises ability across the five areas of cognitive ability: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed indexes. The WISC–V Full-Scale score is one way to view a child’s general intellectual functioning.
WIAT III (The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, Third Edition)
The WIAT-III (The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, Third Edition), is a standardized academic achievement test to measure previously learned knowledge in the areas of Reading, Written Language, Mathematics, and Oral Language.
Oral Language
Measures a child’s performance for listening comprehension and oral expression.
Total Reading
Assesses word recognition skills and reading comprehension abilities.
Basic Reading
Measures performance on reading tasks using both real and made-up words.
Reading Comprehension and Fluency
Assesses accuracy of reading and comprehension of texts.
Written Expression
Indicates how well a child performs on tasks assessing basic skills such as letter formation and spelling as well as more complex skills such as written word fluency and essay composition.
Mathematics
Indicates how well a child performs on tasks evaluating one’s ability to identify and write numbers and solve mathematics calculations, problem-solve mathematical worded questions and compute answers in a given timeframe.
Maths Fluency
Indicates how well a child performs on timed tasks using addition, subtraction and multiplication assessing the ability to compute fluently.