Your Roadmap to Clarity

Assessment Packages

At Raise the Bar Psychology, we believe an assessment should be more than just a diagnosis—it should be a roadmap. We provide comprehensive evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults designed to help you understand your or your child’s neurotype and identify the most appropriate supports. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, you can choose from a diverse range of assessment packages to meet your specific needs.

Because we recognise that not every journey requires a formal label, our Non-Diagnostic and Functional Capacity Assessments focus on identifying an individual’s unique strengths and support needs across home and education/work settings.

Our goal is to bridge the gap between “knowing” and “doing,” providing the clarity you need to leverage your skills and raise the bar for your—or your child’s—future.

Early Childhood Assessments (Ages 2-5)

*Assessment packages are charged at 15% less than the full fee for healthcare card holders or when booked with a provisional psychologist

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School-Age Children & Adolescents Assessments
(Ages 6 – 18)

*Assessment packages are charged at 15% less than the full fee for healthcare card holders or when booked with a provisional psychologist

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Adults Assessments (Ages 18+)

*Assessment packages are charged at 15% less than the full fee for healthcare card holders or when booked with a provisional psychologist

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RBP Post Assessment “Now what” group information session

Raise the Bar Psychology’s “Now what” group information series offers clients and families an opportunity to receive key information about important next steps following their / their child’s diagnosis.

This will include information about sharing the diagnosis with others, implementing recommendations, advocating at school/workplace, access to funding, and rights under disability law and education standards.

A handout with essential links will be provided so that families can explore in their own time.

This series is offered FREE of charge to all current and past clients of Raise the Bar Psychology.

For non-clients, there is a session fee of $45. The full proceeds from each session are dedicated to supporting key organisations:

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Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental and Comprehensive Learning Assessments versus Dyslexia Clinic Assessments

All three assessment packages include:

  • Extensive review of prior testing and developmental/academic/vocational history
  • Incorporation of previous assessment results, such as school-based or previous cognitive or academic testing (if appropriate)
  • Intake, assessment and feedback sessions
  • Comprehensive report detailing individual strengths, difficulties and diagnoses (if appropriate), and detailed recommendations
  • Access to RBP’s Post Assessment “Now What” group information sessions
  • Can be conducted at Heatherton, Clyde North, Moonee Ponds and Sale clinic locations
  • Request for school, university or workplace accommodations
  • Access to RBP’s Post Assessment “Now what” group information session

We’re here to help you identify the most appropriate assessment pathway and to help you through the process and beyond - because everyone deserves a chance to thrive.

We’d love to support you; whether you have a few questions or concerns, want to know your options, or are looking for the best provider for you, book a call with us today.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Assessments

The following table highlights some key differences between Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental and Comprehensive Learning assessments and Dyslexia Clinic assessments, and can be used to help determine the service best suited to your needs.

Please note that our friendly admin team is also available to answer any and all questions you may have.

What are my main reasons for assessment?

Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental and Comprehensive Learning Assessments

Both of these packages can assess one (or more) areas of concern, including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Learning/cognitive skills (e.g. thinking, problem-solving, memory, processing)
  • Academic achievement
  • Communication
  • Social skills
  • Executive functioning (e.g. planning, organisation, attention, motivation)
  • Mental health (anxiety, depression, trauma)

The Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental assessent can also include the following (if relevant)

  • Daily living skills/independence
  • Functional assessments (i.e. NDIS)

Dyslexia Clinic Assessments

One (or more) areas of academic concern, including:

  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Mathematics

Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental and Comprehensive Learning Assessments

  • If needed, the areas above are included within the cost of the comprehensive neurodevelopmental and comprehensive learning assessment.
  • Your psychologist will make an assessment plan following the intake interview, and they will discuss any recommended changes with you where it is applicable and adjust assessment processes accordingly.
  • Additional medical and/or allied health assessments may be recommended as part of a multidisciplinary diagnostic process (e.g., paediatrician, psychiatrist, speech pathologist,
    occupational therapist). Referral options are available upon request.

Dyslexia Clinic Assessments

  • If it is determined throughout the assessment that other areas (e.g., attention) should be further explored, this will be recommended to you.
  • Additional psychology, medical and/or allied health assessments may be recommended. Referral options are often available upon request.
  • Follow up assessments can be booked through Raise the Bar Psychology and will incur an additional cost. You may need to wait for future appointment times to become available, based on your clinician’s
    availability.

Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental and Comprehensive Learning Assessments

  • Extensive learning assessment
  • Aims to identify a very comprehensive profile of cognitive and academic strengths and challenges

Dyslexia Clinic Assessments

  • Thorough, but not exhaustive, cognitive assessment
  • Aims to identify overall intelligence and key cognitive processing skills important for literacy and numeracy development

Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental and Comprehensive Learning Assessments

Both Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental and Comprehensive Learning assessments can identify any of the following conditions:

  • Global developmental delay
  • Intellectual developmental disorder
  • Giftedness/high cognitive potential
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
  • Disorder (ADHD)
  • Various mental health disorders

Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental assessments can also identify the following:

  • Autism spectrum disorder

Dyslexia Clinic Assessments

  • Specific Learning Disorder in Reading (dyslexia), Written Expression (dysgraphia) and/or Mathematics (dyscalculia)

Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental and Comprehensive Learning Assessments

  • 60-minute intake and feedback meetings
  • Variable assessment time, based on areas to be assessed (most commonly 4-6 hours)
  • Child feedback session can be provided at an additional cost

Dyslexia Clinic Assessments

  • 30-minute intake and feedback meetings
  • Up to 4 hours of assessment time (depending on academic area/s assessed)
  • Child feedback session can be provided at an additional cost

Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental and Comprehensive Learning Assessments

  • Typically 6 weeks minimum, from intake to feedback, including up to 3-4 weeks report writing following the completion of assessment sessions

Dyslexia Clinic Assessments

  • Typically 3 weeks from intake to feedback, including 1 week report writing following the completion of assessment sessions

Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental Assessments

  • $3750

Comprehensive Learning Assessments

  • $2990

Dyslexia Clinic Assessments

  • $1055-$2185 (depending on areas assessed)

Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental Assessments

  • School age to adult
  • Those who would like to explore a range of neurodevelopmental concerns/differences and mental health challenges that tend to co-occur

Dyslexia Clinic Assessments

  • School age to adult, preferably with at least 6 months of prior intervention targeting their academic area/s of difficulty
  • Those with key difficulties in literacy and/or numeracy, without significant concerns about social, emotional or behavioural development