Our Assessments

At The Gesher Assessment Centre, we’re here to help you understand and overcome any concerns you might have about an assessment.

We offer diagnostic assessments for children, adolescents and young adults for ADHD, autism, and dyspraxia. We can offer add-ons to our assessments where there is a need for further understanding of cognitive learning style, motor skills, and language and communication skills. We do not offer ongoing theraputic support for children and young people or Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) assessments.

ADHD: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder impacts the parts of the brain that help us focus, plan and execute tasks. In children, this may limit their ability to concentrate, follow instructions, and be organised. Children may be forgetful, distractible, falling behind academically, constantly moving, struggling to wait/take turns and/or interrupting others.

Autism: Refers to a wide range of conditions characterised by differences in social skills and communication (verbal and non-verbal), repetitive behaviours, strong interests and sensory differences. This may look like your child having difficulty in social situations, not responding to their name, using limited eye contact, and/or not using common gestures. Your child may not have interest in other children socially, have intense interests in certain subjects/objects beyond what is typical for his/her age, engage in repetitive behaviours, and/or have sensory differences interfering with daily life by either seeking or being sensitive towards sound, light, texture/feel, movement, etc.

Cognitive learning difficulties: There may be areas in which your child is struggling academically. We can provide formal assessments and reports that identify specific areas of difficulties and strengths. These reports may identify low levels of attainment across the board in all forms of assessment, difficulty in acquiring skills (notably in literacy and numeracy) on which much other learning in school depends; difficulty in dealing with abstract ideas and generalising from experience and a range of associated difficulties, notably in speech and language (particularly for younger children) and in social and emotional development.