A SENCO in Jakarta who refers a student locally gets a psychoeducational report in Indonesian, normed against an Indonesian-speaking population and built for the national system, then has to work out whether Cambridge, the IB or the College Board will accept it, usually after translating...
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...
In Frankfurt, a local assessment is delivered in German, normed against a German-speaking population, and structured for the German system rather than an examination board. It also cannot make the judgement that matters most: a student in Frankfurt's international schools is rarely a monolingual English...
In Geoje, English-language educational psychology is effectively unavailable, the local market built around the island's shipbuilding community rather than its international schools. A local assessment runs in Korean, normed against a Korean-speaking population, and cannot make the call that matters most: separating a genuine learning...
In Doha, the question is rarely whether you can find an assessment, it is whether the report does the job. Provision is split across clinical psychologists, paediatricians and therapy centres, much of it framed for a treatment pathway rather than an examination board. It also...
An international school SENCO in Lisbon who refers locally gets a psychoeducational report in Portuguese, normed against a Portuguese-speaking population and built for the national system, then has to judge whether Cambridge, the IB or the College Board will take it, usually after translation and...
In Chengdu, English-language educational psychology is scarcer still than in the coastal cities, with almost nothing outside the international schools themselves. A local assessment is delivered in Mandarin, normed against a Mandarin-speaking population, and built for the Chinese curriculum, not by an HCPC-registered educational psychologist...
In Abu Dhabi, the issue is rarely whether you can find an assessment, it is whether the report does the job. Diagnosis here is spread across clinical psychologists, paediatricians, psychiatrists and therapy centres, much of it framed for a treatment or medical pathway rather than...
In Hua Hin, English-language educational psychology is effectively unavailable locally, leaving a SENCO either waiting on a provider in Bangkok or sending families to find their own. A local assessment runs in Thai, normed against a Thai-speaking population and built for the Thai system, so...
In Hangzhou, a local assessment is delivered in Mandarin, normed against a Mandarin-speaking population, and built for the Chinese state curriculum rather than an examination board, so the report lands with a SENCO in the wrong language, the wrong norms and the wrong format to...