Genoa's international school families navigate a particular set of practical constraints. The city is the largest port in Italy and a long-established hub for international shipping, marine engineering, and biomedical research, which means the international school population is unusually mobile. Families arrive from Northern Europe,...
Shanghai gives an international school SENCO more local options than most Chinese cities, but more is not the same as usable. A local psychoeducational report arrives in Mandarin, normed against a Mandarin-speaking population and built for the Chinese state curriculum, so the SENCO is still...
For our international students in Florence who have been struggling with maths, the change in grades after diagnosis can be exceptional. This is because after we diagnose Dyscalculia it unlocks targeted intervention strategies including things called exam accommodations which include extra time in all exams...
Turin's international school families face a particular version of a problem that runs across Italy. The Italian DSA framework, governed by Law 170/2010, identifies and supports students with specific learning differences extremely well within the Italian state and paritaria school system. The diagnoses produced under...
Koh Samui's international school SENCOs work on an island with effectively no local English-language provision, so a referral means waiting on someone from the mainland or handing families the job of finding their own. A Thai-language psychoeducational report, normed against a Thai-speaking population and built...
Is it dyslexia, or simply learning in English as an additional language? For international school families in Kuala Lumpur, our HCPC-registered Educational Psychologists answer that question definitively, diagnosing against DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 and providing the evidence the IB, Cambridge, Pearson Edexcel and College Board require...
A single referral sets the process in motion. Each school and family in Riyadh receives a dedicated, secure documentation portal. The SENCO becomes the single point of contact, forwarding teacher input requests, while parents upload their information in parallel. Assessment takes place remotely, or in...
Assessment routes in Paris can be slow, waiting lists at bilingual clinics are long, and reports written to French frameworks do not always satisfy international examination boards. Our HCPC-registered Educational Psychologists remove both obstacles, diagnosing dyslexia against DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 with reports the IB, Cambridge,...
The cognitive baseline comes from the WISC-V for students under 18 or the WAIS-V for those 18 and over. Academic attainment is measured against the WIAT. The CTOPP-2 isolates the phonological processing that sits underneath dyslexia. The SNAP-IV-26, the Conners and Executive Skills self-reports and...
By looking at attention in more than one setting and more than one language, and by measuring it in a way English cannot distort. Rating scales such as the SNAP-IV 26 and the Conners scales go to parents and teachers, not one classroom, so the...