We will gather information from you, your child, and their teachers via interview and questionnaires to learn more about their early development, current behaviors, interests, executive functioning, sensory issues (difficulties with touch, taste, smell, sight, sound, movement, and balance), anxiety or mood symptoms, sleep issues, and more.

Our Comprehensive Assessment includes a brief behavioral observation of your child at their daycare or school in the LA area. Daycare or school observation allows us to see your child in a more natural setting than formal testing.

Together with your child’s daycare or school, we will schedule an appropriate time to visit, during which we can observe a variety of activities to assess your child’s participation in structured and unstructured activities. We advise that you and your child’s teacher should refrain from communicating to your child and their peers that the observation is taking place to maintain privacy and to allow for an unbiased sample of your child’s behavior.

If daycare or school observation is not possible, we may ask for other observation opportunities.

Your last appointment of the assessment process is the feedback session, during which we review results, including any diagnoses that are warranted, and discuss next steps.  

Through teacher interviews and questionnaires and our daycare or school observation, we will have gained insight into whether support or formal accommodations may be appropriate for your child in their learning environment. We can offer guidance on initiating the Individualized Education Program (IEP) or 504 Plan process should you decide to pursue these services. Further, the detailed results provided in our reports and the recommendations we provide can aid in the school’s assessment and plan development.

If we think you should consider medication management for your child, we will refer your family to appropriate medical providers who can help.

A few weeks after your feedback session, we will provide a detailed report that includes assessment results, diagnoses, and recommendations. The recommendations we provide can help guide you if your child receives a diagnosis. If your child meets the criteria for ADHD, the report will include a medical diagnosis of ADHD and specify what type of ADHD your child has (e.g., combined presentation, predominantly inattentive presentation, or predominantly hyperactive-impulsive presentation).

Parents may share the report with other medical or behavioral health professionals, such as psychologists or psychotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and physical therapists. Families have used the report and accompanying medical diagnosis to qualify for treatment and to obtain special education services.