Twenty-four diamonds for full armour, three for a pickaxe, eleven short and a trading plan to fix it. Then the maths homework comes out and the same child dissolves. The contrast is not hypocrisy. It is the most useful clue a parent can bring. ...
Real Madrid's new signing told interviewers he would not join any club in a city without the right schools and therapies for his autistic son. His family had every resource, and the bottleneck was still access. For most families, it is a waiting list. ...
Success means something different for every child, and for a neurodivergent learner it is rarely a single line to cross. Before you can set the goal, you need the map: how a psychoeducational assessment redraws the starting point, the yardstick and the route....
A full psychoeducational assessment with an educational psychologist maps the child's cognitive profile using gold-standard measures (the WISC-V for school-age students, the WAIS-V for older teenagers), alongside standardised academic attainment testing in reading, writing and mathematics. The critical output is the gap analysis: the places...
He reads avidly, thinks sharply, and routinely refuses to do his schoolwork. One parent's message about their son reveals a pattern educational psychologists know well: refusal that is not stubbornness but protection, hiding a specific difficulty with writing. Here is what the pattern means, and...
A Global Education Testing assessment completed at 17 or later stays valid for the GMAT for three years, because it is already an adult-normed measurement. For everyone arriving with school-era paperwork, the rule runs the other way: extra time at school and university does not...
The child who taught themselves to read at three can look like a future star, which is exactly why hyperlexia hides in plain sight. What it is, why comprehension lags behind decoding, and how an assessment answers the question schools keep missing....
Every elite performer measures before they train, because you cannot improve what you have not mapped. Yet we ask children to pursue excellence with no map of their cognitive machinery at all. Excellence needs an address, and relentless needs an owner....
Amsterdam's international families often move between Dutch schools, bilingual streams and fully international programmes, and a reading difficulty can be attributed to each transition in turn. Our HCPC-registered Educational Psychologists end that cycle of explanations with a definitive answer: a formal DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 diagnosis...
Well-meaning advice says children should get used to noise, crowds and scratchy uniforms. But a nervous system in overload is not learning resilience; it is learning that its distress goes unheard. What honouring sensory needs looks like, and where assessment fits in. ...