What are the typical reasons for requesting an assessment?
Parents have many reasons for seeking professional intellectual and academic assessment. They primarily want help in understanding their child’s pattern of abilities. They also seek information that will be useful in educational planning. In some cases, gifted and highly able children lose interest in school or experience specific learning and/or emotional difficulties that need to be addressed. Some of these circumstances suggest that the child is receiving too little challenge at school. Some parents believe that their child’s abilities were not accurately reflected by the results of group testing performed in primary schools and want a more thorough understanding through individual testing. An assessment may be required by parents of children seeking early entry to school. The appropriate age to have a child assessed varies with the individual needs of the child. Assessments can be performed on children as young as 4, if required for early entry to school, but it is more usual to wa
