A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like people too.
Wild Flower Neuropsychology offers comprehensive assessments for young adults through to older adult years of all backgrounds. We understand and see every person as an individual, with individual assessment needs and questions. The neuropsychological assessment provides an objective understanding of a person’s cognitive, emotional and behavioural functioning, while also identify areas of potential difficulty.
Areas of functioning which are typically assessed include:
- Intellectual ability (IQ) or general cognitive abilities
- Attention & concentration,Processing Speed
- Memory
- Language & Communication
- Planning, organisation and problem-solving
- Decision-making and judgement
- Perceptual abilities
- Mood and emotional states
Using an evidence-based approach, the information acquired through the assessment process is used to create a collaborative and supported plan for next steps, involving targeted treatment, intervention and goal-achievement. Please note, we do offer online adult ADHD assessments.
Assessments can be helpful and conducted for several different reasons such as:
- Providing an objective evaluation of strengths and weaknesses of thinking (cognitive) skills in both children and adults.
- Known or suspected cognitive and/or behavioural difficulties, arising from brain trauma, disease, genetic conditions, environmental causes or neurodegenerative diseases
- Assessing the best ways to learning and adapt to schooling, educational or work environments.
- Determining the underlying cause of any cognitive or behavioural weakness and developing recommendations to improve functioning.
- Ensuring that if there is a diagnosis, the appropriate support is in place for the individual at school, work, home and in the community.
- Monitoring the cognitive status of an individual over time to detect change or improvement.
- Determining a person’s capacity to engage in productive activities such as work, study or independent living.
- Answering questions in relation to a person’s capacity to make important life decisions or whether they may need a substitute decision-maker for guardianship or financial management.
