Evaluations
Evaluations are completed to provide a comprehensive picture of the individual and determine their unique strengths as well as areas of growth. Gray Area will work alongside individuals and families to determine the most appropriate evaluations needed to address the individual’s specific needs.
Types of evaluations completed by Gray Area can be found below, however, the list is not exhaustive. Please refer to the Evaluations FAQ for additional information.
Types of evaluations offered at Gray Area:
- Focus on evaluating the current functioning of a child in comparison to expectations for their age
- May be a play-based assessment
- Could include cognitive testing as well as interviews, observations, rating scales, and developmental history
- Often used for concerns related to: Intellectual Disability (ID), developmental delays, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
- Include items such as interviews, observations, direct assessment, and rating scales
- May also include cognitive testing
- Often used for concerns related to ADHD, ASD, Emotional Disturbance (ED), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), disruptive behavior, mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety, etc.
- Include items such as intellectual (i.e., cognitive) assessment, achievement (i.e., academic) assessment), interviews, developmental history, and rating scales
- Looks at diagnostic and educational criteria
- Often used for concerns related to home and school such as: ED, ASD, Specific Learning Disability (SLD), ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ID, etc.
- Built upon aforementioned categories of evaluation, adding on neuropsychological instruments measuring skills such as: memory, learning, language, sensorimotor, visual-spatial, affect recognition, and executive functioning
- Often used for concerns related to: ADHD, SLD, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Epilepsy, ASD, etc.
- Includes items such as interviews, developmental history, observations, and informal and formal assessments.
- Looks at diagnostic and educational criteria. Often used for concerns related to a Speech Impairment (SI).
- Often used for concerns related to SI including disorders such as: speech sounds (e.g. Phonological Processes, Apraxia of Speech), receptive and expressive language (e.g. comprehension and expression), social-language, autism, spoken and written language (e.g. reading comprehension, dyslexia), cognitive-communication (e.g. problem solving, memory), speech fluency, and feeding skills/mealtime behaviors.
- Extensive Record Review
- School Observations
- Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)