Evolving Minds · Assessment
A diagnosis is only useful if someone can act on it.
We write assessment reports for the people who will use them — the school, the NDIS planner, the paediatrician, the parent at the kitchen table. Clear formulation, specific recommendations, and language that describes a person rather than a deficit.
What we assess
Autism Spectrum
Children · Adolescents · Adults
A deeper understanding of each person's unique qualities. Rather than emphasising challenges, we highlight the strengths and distinctive abilities autism brings — treating a diagnosis as a gateway to understanding a way of experiencing the world, not a verdict on it.
ADHD
Children · Adolescents · Adults
Our ADHD assessments recognise the natural diversity in how people think, feel and process the world. We formalise what many clients have already worked out about themselves, and set out the strengths as carefully as the difficulties — with the documentation a prescriber or an employer will ask for.
Cognitive & educational
School-aged · Tertiary
Comprehensive cognitive and educational assessment giving a detailed picture of a person's learning profile — instrumental in identifying learning difficulties and specific learning disabilities, and in securing the adjustments that follow from them.
Adaptive functioning
All ages
Adaptive functioning assessments explore the skills that make daily living and independence possible. These give a clear account of how a person navigates the world — and, where support is needed, the evidence to fund it.
How an assessment runs
STEP 01
Intake
A 60-minute developmental and clinical history with the client and, for young people, their parents.
STEP 02
Testing
One to three sessions of standardised assessment, paced to the person rather than the schedule.
STEP 03
Collateral
Teacher and carer questionnaires, and school observation where it will change the answer.
STEP 04
Feedback
A session to talk the findings through properly, with the written report and a letter to you.
Refer for assessment
Send a plan, a paediatrician letter or a plain note to the address below. We'll acknowledge the same business day and tell you the honest wait before your patient hears anything.