Cognitive Assessment

A cognitive assessment provides a detailed picture of how someone functions across different areas of thinking, reasoning and learning.

It isn’t just about arriving at a single overall score: it’s about analysing the whole cognitive profile, identifying strengths, difficulties and differences between abilities, and relating these results to the person’s age, development and context.

This kind of assessment can be useful when there are questions about intellectual functioning, learning difficulties, a need to better understand someone’s cognitive profile, significant differences between areas of functioning, or when a specialist evaluation is needed to help guide educational, clinical or family decisions.

What can be assessed?

Depending on age and the reason for the assessment, different areas may be explored, including:

• Verbal reasoning and comprehension.
• Perceptual and visuospatial reasoning.
• Problem-solving and logical reasoning.
• Working memory.
• Processing speed.
• Attention and other relevant cognitive functions.
• Estimation of general intellectual ability and analysis of the individual profile.

We select standardised psychometric instruments suited to each person’s age and characteristics, which may include scales such as the WISC-V and WAIS-III, among other complementary instruments where needed.

An assessment tailored to each person

Especially with children and adolescents, results are interpreted in light of their developmental stage, learning history, family and school context, and any differences across areas of development.

The aim is to provide a genuinely useful understanding of how someone’s mind works, rather than reducing the assessment to a single number or label.

Once the assessment is complete, we hold a feedback session in which the results are explained in a clear, accessible way, along with any guidance that follows from them.

What’s included

The full evaluation includes:

• Clinical interview and background history.
• Administration and scoring of the instruments selected after the initial interview.
• Clinical integration and interpretation of the results.
• Feedback session.
• A full written clinical report with results, conclusions and recommendations arising from the evaluation.