School-age psychoeducational services

The Montreal Fluency Centre offers the following psychoeducational services:

  • Assessment to determine if there is a learning or attention disorder (ADD or ADHD)
  • Joint assessment by a speech-language pathologist and a school psychologist
  • Consultation to review a child’s learning and previous assessments, to create a treatment plan and to explore school placement options
  • Consultation and/or individual treatment session to provide guidance and training for technology (computers, software, apps)
  • School meetings to discuss assessment findings and to assist with support planning

School-age psychoeducational assessments

The following psychoeducational assessments are available for school-age children:

  • early elementary school students (January of grade one until the end of grade three)
  • late elementary school, high school and post-secondary school students (grade four and higher)
  • combined assessment (determined on a case-by-case basis to address multiple concerns in one assessment)

School-age psychoeducational assessments provide information about:

  • intellectual functioning (e.g., verbal reasoning, memory, ability to problem solve using pictures, information processing, etc.)
  • academic skills such as reading, spelling, written expression and mathematics

Assessment requires between three and eight hours of time with the child and an average of three hours with parents.

The MFC offers the following psycho-educational services for school-age children:

Psychoeducational evaluation

  • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children IV (WISC-IV) and standardized and nonstandardized achievement and learning measures, (2–3 visits)
  • Written report and feedback meeting
  • Follow-up phone call

Academic evaluation

  • Standardized and informal academic testing (1–2 visits)
  • Written report and feedback meeting
  • Follow-up phone call

Psychological consultation

  • Learning issues
  • School placement
  • Social-emotional concerns
  • Behavioural problems

To seek psychoeducational services for your child, begin by opening a file.