Toronto & Mississauga Locations
While every individual will have their unique experiences, those seeking an ADHD only assessment may report having challenges with fidgeting, maintaining their focus, following appropriate conversational cues, strong emotional reactions, and staying organized.
Our ADHD-only assessments are for clients 16 years and older with a specific question around ADHD and are not looking to address learning-based difficulties (e.g., Learning Disabilities), or socio-emotional challenges outside of ADHD (e.g., mood or anxiety challenges). Clients may be directed to the appropriate services if these issues emerge.
To address the question of ADHD, a multi-informant, multi-modal assessment is essential. Specifically, the assessment will include a thorough intake to understand current concerns and history of challenges, questionnaires to be completed by the individual and others (e.g., spouse, teacher, parent), standardized testing (IQ for cognitive ability, executive functioning, measures of attention), direct consultation with the supervising psychologist and a thorough feedback with the psychologist to discuss the results.
Because our ADHD-only assessments are diagnostic specific, this service is provided at a reduced cost of $2,000.
Often, an individual’s daily functioning may be impacted by their struggles with managing and prioritizing tasks and schedules, procrastination, and responding to personal stressors in an effective way. The assessment results will provide a comprehensive understanding of the individual’s ability to regulate their attention, emotions and behaviour, which likely have an impact on their daily functioning. It will also provide specific recommendations for support based on the results both in the educational and personal environments.
This information is meant to provide insights into making informed decisions about the individual’s educational and/or professional journey.
ADHD-only assessments are limited in scope to address the specific question of ADHD.In contrast, our comprehensive psychoeducational assessments are intended to address learning related challenges, including Learning Disabilities and socio-emotional difficulties, which include additional testing around academic progress, memory and mental health.
As our primary service, we continue to offer comprehensive psychoeducational assessments intended to address attention, learning and mental health challenges.
The CADDAC (Centre for ADHD Awareness Canada) website is a great place to start for getting information and additional resources:
https://caddac.ca/
First appointment is in-person at either our Toronto or Mississauga office and involves the intake and testing portions of the assessment, typically for about 3 hours.
After the testing is complete a video consultation appointment will take place with the Registered Psychologist. The purpose of this appointment is to follow up on any information that came from the interview, testing and/or questionnaires. Following this, the results of the tests and consultation will be analyzed and a report written.
The final appointment will also be with the Registered Psychologist to discuss the results and recommendations. This appointment will be held via video or phone. Following the appointment, arrangements will be made to provide the full written report.
