Students in Barcelona routinely juggle three languages, Catalan and Spanish across daily life and English in the classroom, so a literacy difficulty has more places to hide than almost anywhere in Europe. Our HCPC-registered Educational Psychologists isolate the cause, diagnosing dyslexia against DSM-5-TR and ICD-11...
Because so many Manila students speak English fluently, a reading difficulty is easily dismissed as carelessness or lack of effort. Our HCPC-registered Educational Psychologists look beneath fluent speech to the cognitive processes behind reading and spelling, diagnosing dyslexia against DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 with reports accepted...
Some of our parents in Buenos Aires worry that arranging accommodations is in some way giving their child an unfair edge. It is the opposite. Extra time and the rest of the arrangements do not add anything to their ability....
This is what allows a single assessment to distinguish dyslexia from a more general reading delay, ADHD from anxiety or from the effects of a learning difficulty masking underneath it, dyscalculia from a maths-specific attainment gap, and dysgraphia or a developmental language difficulty from the...
When a family moves between systems, the child's chronological age often places them into a year group that does not match where they are academically or developmentally. The new school's default is to place by age. The family may have good reasons to request a...
No, it is not too late. A psychoeducational assessment commissioned in the secondary school years still produces meaningful outcomes for the student: a clinical picture that explains years of effort, a documentation package that unlocks examination access arrangements for the qualifications ahead, and a plan...
Jeju's international schools sit on an island where local English-language provision is effectively nil, which leaves a SENCO referring to the mainland or sending families to find their own. A Korean-language psychoeducational report, normed against a Korean-speaking population and built for the Korean system, is...
What brings most parents to look for a dyscalculia assessment in Rome is the worry about what the situation is causing. The student is usually talented elsewhere and the maths grade is the one thing dragging the whole profile down. ...
Maths and writing share more underlying machinery than parents realise. When a child struggles in both, the cause is usually shared too....
A comprehensive psychoeducational assessment in a university-aged student produces a clinical picture that is different from the same assessment in a teenager or younger child. The cognitive battery uses the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) for students 18 and over, which measures verbal comprehension, perceptual...