Cognitive Assessment.
Ages 6-16 years
This assessment is designed to understand your child’s cognitive strengths and thinking style.
It involves standardised intellectual testing using the WISC-V, and may be supported by questionnaires where appropriate.
Our cognitive assessment involves a structured session with your child using a range of engaging tasks, puzzles, questions, and problem-solving activities. These tasks are designed to assess areas such as verbal reasoning, visual-spatial skills, working memory, processing speed, and overall intellectual ability.
In some cases, additional questionnaires (such as adaptive functioning measures) may be used to better understand how your child’s skills translate into everyday life. Together, this information provides a detailed profile of cognitive strengths and areas that may benefit from support.
What does the typical Cognitive assessment involve?
For further details about the assessment process and how to get started, you can download our information pack below.
Cognitive assessment information and Pricing guide.
The Cost.
Assessment fees vary between psychologists and reflect the clinician’s level of experience and the specific assessment requirements.
Eran Bar
Clinical registrar
$1300 total upfront or;
Assessment appointment on the day $500
Feedback appointment on the day $200
Before the report is written $600
Alex Strauss
Senior Clinical Psychologist
$1520 total upfront or;
Assessment appointment on the day $580
Feedback appointment on the day $235
Before the report is written $705
Did you know?
The WISC-V can be done on its own or combined with the WIAT-III assessment, an academic achievement test.
By comparing a child’s intellect with their academic skills we can ascertain whether a learning disorder, such as, Dyslexia is present.
View the combined (Educational) assessment package HERE.
When is a Cognitive Assessment recommended?
A cognitive assessment is often recommended when there are questions about a child’s intellectual profile, learning capacity, or overall thinking style. It may be helpful if there are concerns about learning difficulties, possible giftedness, uneven skill development, or to better understand a child’s strengths and support needs.
This assessment can also provide useful information for school planning, accommodations, and further diagnostic considerations where appropriate.
More on the WISC-V
The WISC-V is generally used by psychologists to provide schools with useful information regarding intellectual deficit or intellectual giftedness so that accommodations, modifications and supports can be coordinated.
It provides a global score, essentially summarising overall results across several types of mental abilities (verbal, spatial, memory, problem solving and work efficiency). In popular culture, this is often referred to as someone’s IQ. It is more involved than that, and not always accurate or appropriate for the context; so, your assessing psychologist will discuss this further with you at your feedback appointment.
Further to providing a global score of performance, the results provide useful information regarding the test taker’s ability to engage in verbal tasks, visual spatial tasks, memory tasks, problem solving and working efficiently.
It is also be used to find the specific intellectual strengths and difficulties that a child may have to see what is going well and what can be worked on, to improve their functioning.
A note on assessment fees & inclusions.
It is important to us that assessment costs are transparent from the outset. In most cases, all components required for the assessment are included within the quoted cost.
Occasionally, additional areas of concern may become apparent during the assessment process that were not originally identified. In these instances, the psychologist may recommend further testing to ensure a thorough and accurate evaluation. Any additional recommendations, along with associated fees (if applicable), will always be discussed with you beforehand so you can make an informed decision about whether to proceed.
Where sessions are held via telehealth, we may request the relevant fees to be finalised before the day.
All prices quoted are inclusive of GST.