Our Whole Child Assessment provides a broad, integrated understanding of your child’s functioning across multiple areas of development. This assessment is designed to screen comprehensively across key domains, allowing us to understand not only how your child is learning, but how they are experiencing the world.

Specifically, Whole Child Assessments examine:

• Cognitive and academic functioning

• Attention and executive functioning

• Behavioural and social-emotional functioning

• Adaptive and daily living skills

By looking across these interconnected areas, we are able to identify patterns of strengths, differences, and support needs that may not be visible when skills are assessed in isolation.

This comprehensive approach allows the assessment to identify learning disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, and mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and related emotional or behavioural challenges. Importantly, identification is always grounded in context and lived experience - we are careful to distinguish between developmental differences, environmental stressors, and clinical conditions.

Throughout the process, we integrate standardized measures with parent and child interviews, teacher input when appropriate, and clinical observation. The resulting report provides a clear, practical picture of your child’s profile, highlighting strengths while outlining areas where additional support may be helpful. Recommendations are tailored to your child, your family, and their learning environment, with a focus on promoting well-being, self-understanding, and long-term success.

Whole Child Assessments (Psychoeducational PLUS)

(Ages 2–7)

Our Developmental Assessments are distinct from our ADHD and autism assessments and are designed specifically for young children between the ages of 2 and 7. These assessments provide a deep, holistic understanding of early development, with the goal of identifying developmental differences, delays, or emerging conditions as early and accurately as possible.

Each Developmental Assessment is highly comprehensive and always includes a school or daycare observation, allowing us to see your child in their natural learning environment. This in-context observation is a core part of our process and helps us understand how your child engages with peers, responds to expectations, regulates emotions, and navigates the demands of a classroom or group setting.

We assess multiple areas of development, including cognitive skills, early learning and pre-academic abilities, communication and language, social interaction, play skills, emotional regulation, motor development, sensory processing, and adaptive functioning. Information is gathered through detailed developmental history, parent interviews, standardized assessment tools, and direct observation across settings.

This comprehensive approach allows us to identify a wide range of developmental differences and conditions and to differentiate between developmental variation, environmental factors, and more persistent challenges. Our reports provide clear, practical guidance for families, educators, and support teams, with an emphasis on early intervention, meaningful supports, and strengths-based planning.

Above all, our goal is to help families understand their child’s unique developmental profile and to support confident, informed decision-making during a critically important stage of growth.

Developmental Assessments

Our Gifted Assessments are designed to identify advanced cognitive abilities and understand how giftedness is expressed in a child’s learning profile. These assessments focus on intellectual functioning and academic achievement and do not evaluate for learning disabilities, neurodevelopmental conditions, or mental health diagnoses. 

Assessments include both intellectual (IQ) testing and a core academic achievement battery, allowing us to understand how a child reasons and how those abilities translate into reading, writing, and math performance. In line with school board standards, gifted assessments use gold-standard cognitive measures such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition (WISC-V), or the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5), alongside standardized academic measures. 

Our clinicians integrate standardized testing with developmental history, parent input, and clinical observation to ensure that cognitive strengths are clearly identified and interpreted in context. While we do not assess for diagnoses within this service, we remain attentive to patterns that may warrant further exploration and can guide families toward additional assessment options if appropriate. 

Families receive a clear, accessible report outlining their child’s cognitive and academic profile, areas of notable strength, and recommendations for educational programming and enrichment. Guidance is practical and school-focused, supporting informed conversations with educators and helping ensure that children are appropriately challenged. 

Our goal is to support gifted children by clarifying their strengths and learning needs within the academic context, while equipping families with information to advocate confidently within the school system. 

Gifted Assessments

ADHD / Autism Assessments

Our ADHD and autism assessments are comprehensive neurodevelopmental assessments designed to evaluate attention, regulation, learning, and social communication, while screening thoughtfully for both ADHD and autism. These assessments recognize that neurodevelopmental profiles are often complex and overlapping, and that careful, nuanced evaluation is essential to understanding each child’s unique pattern of strengths and challenges.

The assessment process begins with an in-depth developmental history and includes interviews with parents and children, input from educators when appropriate, clinical observation, and the use of standardized measures. We examine cognitive functioning, attention and executive functioning, emotional and behavioural regulation, social communication, adaptive skills, and sensory experiences, always within the context of the child’s environment and daily life.

Our approach is neurodiversity-affirming and strengths-based. We are attentive to the many ways neurodevelopmental differences can present across ages, genders, and settings, and we take care to differentiate between neurodevelopmental differences, mental health factors, and situational or environmental influences. When criteria are met, diagnoses such as ADHD or autism may be identified; when they are not, we provide clear explanations and guidance for monitoring and support.

Families are supported throughout the process with clear communication, thoughtful feedback, and practical recommendations. Our goal is not simply to answer a diagnostic question, but to help families understand how their child’s brain works and what supports will best help them thrive at home, at school, and beyond.