A Learning Disability affects a broad range of academic and functional skills, including: speaking, listening, reading, writing, spelling, and completing mathematical calculations. People with learning disabilities often have difficulty achieving at their intellectual level because of a deficit in one or more of the ways the brain processes information.
Is your child struggling in school? An evaluation at Legacy Center may be helpful in providing you and your child with the information you need to provide the proper help he/she needs.
- Difficulty with reading and/or writing
- Problems with math skills
- Difficulty remembering
- Trouble following directions
- Poor coordination
- Difficulty with concepts related to time
- Difficulty staying on task (easily distracted)
- Difficulty finding the right way to say something
- Inconsistent school performance
- Poor spelling
- Difficulty recalling numbers in sequence (for example, telephone numbers and addresses)
- Trouble distinguishing left from right
- A strong dislike of writing and/or drawing
- Problems with grammar
- Trouble writing down ideas
- A quick loss of energy and interest while writing
- Trouble writing down thoughts in a logical sequence
WHAT CAN I EXPECT (AS A PARENT) DURING THE EVALUATION?
Parents and/ or client will attend a 1 hour intake session that will provide the provider with all relevant past and current information. The purpose of the intake session is to review consent forms, to discuss history and presenting concerns, to determine the type of evaluation that is recommended, and to schedule the evaluation. Depending on the age of the client, the intake session will include the client and/or the parent(s). During the evaluation, parents, the client, and/or teachers will fill out several surveys to report history and present information about the client. Depending on the client’s needs and scope of the evaluation either one or two in-office testing sessions would be scheduled.
WHAT CAN THE CLIENT EXPECT?
During a learning disability evaluation, the client will be given a cognitive test that includes questions and tasks to complete. In addition, he/she will participate in an academic test that will assess your child’s acquired knowledge. Also, if the client is old enough, he/she will complete self-report surveys.
Instruments or measures utilized by Legacy include:
- Cognitive measures
- Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence Fourth Edition (WPPSI-IV)
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Fifth Edition (WISC-V)
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Adults Fifth Edition (WAIS-5)
- Achievement measures
- Woodcock-Johnson Test of Achievement – Fifth Edition (WJ-V)
- Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing – Second Edition (CTOPP2)
- Gray Oral Reading Tests Fifth Edition (GORT-5)
- Test of Written Language Fourth Edition (TOWL-4)
Please bring snacks and water for yourself and/or the client. Once all appointments (in-office and telehealth) have been completed, and once all report measures have been submitted, a telehealth feedback session will scheduled. Typically feedback sessions are completed one-to-two weeks following the last date of testing, as long as all report measures are completed. During the feedback session, the provider will review the results, diagnoses, and recommendations for treatment.