Tulsa Center for Psychological Assessments

Psychoeducational assessments measures the client’s intellectual or cognitive abilities and educational achievement levels. It also yields recommendations relevant for educational planning. Sources of assessment data include:

                           

• Background information 

• Educational history

• Records and data from tests of intelligence and educational achievement

• Rating tests of attention, behavior/emotions, and adaptive behavior

 

Psychoeducational assessment is designed to answer these questions:

 

• Does the client have a learning disability?

• Does the client have an intellectual disability?

• Does the client have attentional problems?

• What are the client’s academic and cognitive abilities, strengths, and weaknesses?

• What are appropriate educational recommendations? Accommodations?

• Does the client meet criteria for identification as gifted?

 

While learning, not emotional problems, is the focus of psychoeducational assessment, behavior/emotional and medical issues may need to be addressed in a psychoeducational assessment. Compiling, integrating, and analyzing all assessment data yield educational and other relevant recommendations. 

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