Tokyo is one of the hardest cities in the developed world for an international school SENCO to source English-language psychoeducational assessment: outside the international schools themselves there is almost none, and the local route runs entirely in Japanese, normed against a Japanese-speaking population and built...
In Busan, English-language educational psychology is almost unavailable outside the international schools themselves, with what little provision exists concentrated in Seoul. A local assessment is delivered in Korean, normed against a Korean-speaking population, and built for the Korean system, not by an HCPC-registered educational psychologist...
Pattaya's international school SENCOs have little to no local English-language provision to refer to, which usually means waiting on a psychologist from Bangkok or leaving families to source their own. A Thai-language psychoeducational report, normed against a Thai-speaking population and built for the national system,...
A SENCO in Jeddah rarely struggles to find an assessment. The struggle is getting one that does the job. Provision sits across clinical psychologists, paediatricians and therapy centres, much of it built for a treatment pathway rather than an examination board, so a report can...
Seoul has real English-language provision, more than anywhere else in Korea, so the question for an international school SENCO is consistency rather than access. Psychology is not a protected title in Korea, and a psychoeducational report can come from a practitioner working to any of...
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...
Madrid has a deep international school sector and a local assessment route that still does not fit it. A psychoeducational report here is produced in Spanish, normed against a Spanish-speaking population and structured for the Spanish system, so it reaches an international school SENCO in...
For an international school SENCO in Rome, a local referral comes back as a psychoeducational report in Italian, normed against an Italian-speaking population and built for the Italian system, which the SENCO then has to translate and rebuild before Cambridge, the IB or the College...
In Beijing, a local assessment is built for a different student than the one sitting it. It is delivered in Mandarin, normed against a Mandarin-speaking population, and structured for the Chinese system, not by an HCPC-registered educational psychologist and not against the DSM-5-TR and ICD-11...
An international school SENCO in Milan runs exam and classroom access for students who mostly carry Italian or another home language alongside English. The local route works against them: a psychoeducational report in Italian, normed against an Italian-speaking population and built for the Italian system,...