Psycho-Educational Assessment

Dr. Jones provides the following types of assessments at $225 / hour. Assessments vary in number of hours required.

• Psycho-Educational Assessment: Learning assessment and educational assessment to identify a person’s learning profile and/or learning disabilities.  This assessment requires 13 hours of work at $225 / hour.

• Psycho-Legal Assessment: Dr. Jones has been qualified in BC Supreme Court as an expert witness with experience in the assessment of learning disorders

• Assessment for MCAT / GRE / LSAT / GMAT Accommodations

• Cognitive Functioning Assessment / Intelligence Assessment: including assessment of verbal and non-verbal reasoning, sequential problem solving, pattern recognition and completion,  visual-spatial and visual-constructive abilities; relating these ability areas to academic, vocational and day-to-day adaptive functioning

• Memory Assessment: assessment of memory abilities – for visual vs. verbal information; for meaningful vs. abstract information; recognition vs. recall abilities

• Neuropsychological Assessment: comprehensive neuropsychological assessments examining cognition, memory, and executive functions

• Developmental Assessments: comprehensive developmental assessments of your child’s developmental level in motor, speech-language, cognitive, regulation of attention, impulse-control and emotions, executive functions, adaptive functioning  

• Adaptive Behavior Assessment: assessment of adaptive functioning, including daily living skills, activities of daily living (ADL’s), vocational, academic, social and leisure domains

• Comprehensive and Diagnostic ADHD Assessment: including assessment of attention and executive functions.  This assessment requires five hours at $225 / hour.

• Other Diagnostic Assessments:  

  • FASD Diagnosis: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis

  • Autism Diagnosis: Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis for children age two years and older

  • Developmental Diagnosis: including Intellectual Disability Diagnosis

  • Anxiety Diagnosis: diagnosis of Anxiety Disorders

  • Depression Diagnosis: Diagnosis of Depressive and Adjustment Disorders

  • Somatic Symptom Disorders 

  • Impulse-Control Disorders 

  • Trauma Assessment: diagnosis of trauma-related disorders including P0st-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  • Personality Disorder Assessment: diagnosis of Personality Disorders

Questions about assessment?  Here is a helpful information page provided by the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Jones provides assessments to children and adults at the Lifespan Development Group clinics in Vancouver and Port Moody. Assessment goals can include diagnosis, understanding the causes of a disorder or difficulty, and identifying treatments and supports that are likely to be helpful.