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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