This type of evaluation assesses a student’s intellectual abilities, cognitive skills, and academic achievement skills to determine strengths and weaknesses that affect learning and school performance. It is typically requested to investigate learning disorders (LD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), language disorders, processing speed disorders, visual processing disorders, and/or poor school performance.

Core tests include the Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement, and other standardized measures of language, visual spatial skills, executive function skills, processing speed, memory, abstract reasoning, reading, writing, mathematics, and the motoric aspects of writing. Parent and teachers are typically asked to fill out rating scales and, when necessary, classroom observations are performed. A screening of social and emotional functioning is included because these issues often occur with or are consequences of learning difficulties.

Educational recommendations, including classroom accommodations, are provided.

Comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations can be performed to obtain accommodations for standardized testing (including SAT, ACT, AP exams, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and MCAT) , such as extended time, testing over multiple days, testing in a distraction-free environment, use of a human reader, etc.