• takes several hours and costs thousands of dollars
• very occasionally supplied by the school
• mostly for kids

The traditional pathway for children to be diagnosed is to have a psychoeducational assessment. This is done by a psychologist and can take many hours, and cost thousands of dollars atarax pris. The assessor may even go into the classroom to directly observe behaviour, and interview parents and teachers, and perform formal testing not only on IQ but on the various components that add up to intelligence, things like recall and processing speed and word skills etc.

In an ideal world, these tests would be available through the school system or even better, be available for all, but truth is most people can’t afford it, and fortunately it usually isn’t necessary for adults. In kids, these kinds of assessments can determine if someone is gifted, or has a specific learning disorder like dyslexia, or even that the IQ is lower than average and expectations should be modified but keep in mind if someone is significantly adhd, estimates of IQ can be significantly lower than they should be, or could be.

As dyslexia often responds to ADHD medication, do you even need a diagnosis of dyslexia? If despite medication its still a significant problem, then possibly, but do you need a test to prove it by that point?

Sometimes, despite my best efforts, I’m simply not sure if there are sufficient symptoms to justify a label or a prescription and this kind of testing can help.

Testing can be helpful in marginal cases, or where there is just plain a disagreement. If I sa no adhd, and you think there is, testing might be useful. If anxiety is interfering with an accurate assessment, testing might help.

Usually universities don’t need psychoeducational testing to give academic accommodations but if you want extra time for your MCAT or Chartered Accountant exam, then be prepared to pay for testing.