Developmental Assessments
We assess your child’s strengths and challenges by taking the time to interact with you and your child.
Our Approach Is Evidence-based
This means that we understand and use established and well-researched approaches and tools in assessing your child’s development. We assess your child’s main developmental areas: how your child focuses and attends to interactions and tasks, how they communicate and socialise with others, how they understand their own and other people’s emotions, how they use their senses to make meaning of their world and how they use and move their body in social interactions.
We listen to your concerns and explain what we are doing and why we are doing it in language that you understand. We believe that the more you understand your child’s strengths and challenges, the more you can help them.
You will be asked to complete some information before the assessment so we can better understand your concerns and your child. We will then assess your child using a multi-disciplinary approach in our purpose-built clinic.
During the assessment, we observe how your child interacts, plays, and communicates and how you interact, play, and communicate with your child.
This way, we can support you in adapting your interaction style to be the best parent you can be for your child.
By also working with you as a parent, your child will make faster gains in their development.
We use the Developmental Observation of Language: Links to Intervention (DOLLI) to build a developmental profile of your child’s communication during natural interactions in play, routines, and family life, so children don’t have to sit still, follow commands, or ‘perform’ for us.
Please contact us for more information.
Before Your Child's Assessment
Assessments are done in collaboration with the individual and family. We focus on the individual’s and family’s strengths and provide strategies for the individual and/or parents to support their challenges.