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Assessment Process
Keeping Pace offers assessments that examine both cognitive processes and academic skills. Most other learning centers only offer diagnostic assessments of skills. You already know your child is struggling and we tell you why.
After assessing what skills are deficient, we use cognitive interventions to strengthen these skills. At the same time, we help students enhance their academic performance, but always with the goal in mind of improving the underlying problems. With improved cognitive skills, students are able to become more competent, independent learners.
Collecting Data to determine the appropriate intervention to solve learning problems.
Prior to the assessment, we request that parents fill out specific checklists and questionnaires. It is very important that we gather all the information necessary to get a complete profile on your child's learning challenges.
Please choose the following checklist(S) that pertain to your child.
Memory
Attention
Auditory Processing
Visual Processing
Logic and Reasoning
Sequential Processing
Vestibular Integration
Sensorimotor Integration
Vestibular
Integration
Sensorimotor
Skills
Auditory
Processing
Visual Fields &
Visual Processing
Logic and
Reasoning
Attention
Listening
Skills
Auditory
Analysis
Working
Memory
From these assessments we are able to determine the areas of weakness in skills that are causing the child’s learning difficulties. The results of the assessments determine the appropriate cognitive interventions and academic remediation to be used. Because we assess both cognitive and academic skills to help us identify the cause of a child’s learning difficulty, we are better able to design a complete and truly individualized remediation plan for each child.
How is this assessment different than the assessment a school might do?
Schools test so that they can determine if your child would qualify for services related to a child's learning disabilities. Generally tools like the W.I.S.C. (Wechsler and the Kaufmann IQ Tests) offer little information to the classroom teachers who actually work with children.
Checklist that Indicate Handwriting Problems
Checklist that Indicate Problems with Written Expressions
Checklist that Indicate Math Problems
Checklist that Indicate Study, Organizational & Time Management Problems
Checklist that Indicate Attention Problems
Checklist that Indicate Visual Processing Problems
Reading Comprehension
Reading Fluency
Reading/Decoding Skills
Arithmetic / Math Skills
Content Area Math Skills (algebra / geometry)
Handwriting Skills
Writing/Language Arts Skills (spelling)
Language Pragmatics (antonyms, synonyms, idioms)
Executive Functions
Decoding
Skills
Algebra as a Way of Developing Executive Function
Executive Function
Developing Reading Comprehension Skills
Importance of
Handwriting
Fluency
Skills
The only reason a School District will assess a child is to determine if they have a qualifying learning disability.
The assessment and the report are easy to read and understand and give a more complete picture of the learning challenges than school based assessments. Our assessment process is to determine very specifically what the underlying core deficiencies are for the purpose of solving the learning problems. Our assessment will give you complete understanding of why your child struggles. Here is an example of what your child's assessment report might look like.
Keeping Pace Learning Center specifically looks at skills such as:
What happens after the assessment?
After the assessment, a consultation is scheduled to review the results. All parts of the assessment are thoroughly explained as well as how problem areas impact the student. The individualized program developed for the student is discussed, as are time frames, fees, and payment options.
When school is not going well, parents look to academic tutoring and homework help as a solution. Often just tutoring doesn’t work to solve the problem. At Keeping Pace Learning Center, we do MORE than tutor. We help children and adults SOLVE their learning challenges.
