Educational and Neurodevelopmental Assessments

Cognitive or Intelligence Assessment Melbourne

Navigating questions about intellectual ability can feel uncertain—and everyone deserves the chance to understand and leverage their strengths. With a comprehensive cognitive assessment, we’ll help you uncover your thinking and reasoning profile, guiding you toward effective learning plans, career pathways and supports.

To start, complete our online booking form—no referral needed and no pressure involved.

Once submitted, someone from our team will contact you to discuss your goals, explain the process and answer any questions.

Book Online
Contact Us
Cognitive or Intellectual Assessment Melbourne | Raise the Bar Clinic

How Can a Cognitive Assessment Help

A cognitive assessment provides a detailed profile of your thinking abilities—language and comprehension, reasoning and problem-solving, memory and processing speed. It assists with:

  • Determining why learning challenges arise and informing individualised learning plans
  • Identifying intellectual delays, giftedness or co-occurring conditions (e.g. dyslexia, ADHD, autism)
  • Supporting applications for exam special provisions, inclusive education adjustments and NDIS funding
  • Guiding career and vocational planning by clarifying transferable skills and aptitudes
Preparing Your Child for an Assessment
Preparing for an Adult Assessment

Who Should Consider This Assessment

Consider a cognitive assessment if you or someone you care about:

  • Has questions about uneven learning or problem-solving despite effort
  • Seeks clarity on intellectual strengths or concerns (IQ questions)
  • Needs evidence for educational or workplace accommodations
  • Is preparing for end-of-school exam special provisions (e.g. VCE)
  • Wants to inform career or vocational decisions based on a cognitive profile

Common Signs & Symptoms

Cognitive differences can look different in every person, but may include:

  • Difficulty learning new concepts or applying problem-solving strategies
  • Memory lapses affecting short-term recall or following multi-step instructions
  • Slow processing speed that impacts reading, writing or task completion
  • Unexpected gaps between effort and performance in academic or daily activities

If these patterns persist and affect the completion of day-to-day tasks, a cognitive assessment can shed light on their cause.

Learn More

Cognitive Assessment Process

An cognitive assessment can uncover your unique strengths, differences and challenges, how your brain learns best, and whether you require particular support or adjustments at home, school or the workplace.

At a minimum, it provides clear insights to help you overcome barriers, leverage your strengths and identify supports needed to reach your potential.

Book Online
Contact Us
Step 1​ : Booking & Consent​

Share your concerns, goals, and needs so that we can match you with the right psychologist and assessment.

1
Step 2 : Clinical Intake

Meet with your psychologist to share background information. Your psychologist will explain the assessment process and what to expect.

2
Step 3 : Assessment

Assessments are delivered using a "hybrid" model. This means most of our conversations happen from the comfort of your own home via Telehealth, with only the essential face-to-face assessment held in person at our clinic.

3
Step 4 : Feedback

Receive a clear and simple explanation of assessment results. Ask questions. Plan a clear path forward. A comprehensive and personalised report is provided.

4
Step 5 : Ongoing support

We offer child friendly feedback sessions, school consultation, and parent support. Many families return to monitor progress and to review recommendations in preparation for important transitions (e.g., starting primary, secondary or tertiary education).

5
BOOK ONLINE
Contact Us

Your Roadmap to Clarity

Cognitive or Intelligence Assessment Packages

Every mind works differently. Our intellectual assessment packages are designed to help you, your family, or your support team understand your unique cognitive profile. From identifying intellectual giftedness to uncovering support needs for daily living, we provide a clear, evidence-based roadmap to help you navigate life with confidence.

For further information visit our Assessment Packages page.

Cost: $1,200

RBP’s Cognitive Assessment (often referred to as an IQ or Intelligence test) provides a comprehensive profile of an individual’s thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving abilities.

By identifying specific cognitive strengths and vulnerabilities, we help uncover why a person may be thriving in some areas while struggling in others. This assessment is an essential tool for tailoring educational support, workplace adjustments, or personal development strategies.

This assessment is ideal for those who:

  • Seek to understand whether cognitive challenges are impacting their learning, achievement or workplace performance
  • Require a cognitive assessment as part of a broader multidisciplinary assessment
  • Need a reassessment of their cognitive abilities to provide updated information about cognitive functioning
Cost: $2,300

RBP’s Functional Capacity Assessment provides understanding regarding an individual’s unique strengths and support needs. Tailored to each individual, this assessment explores any/all of the following:

  • Cognitive: capacity for processing information, learning, remembering, and applying knowledge to complete everyday tasks and activities, including participation in education or employment
  • Communication: capacity for expressing oneself and understanding others, whether through speech, writing, or other method
  • Social: capacity for engaging in social activities and maintaining relationships
  • Emotional: capacity for managing and responding to one’s emotions that allows for effective functioning in daily life
  • Adaptive functioning: capacity to perform activities of daily living such as dressing, eating and acting safely, as well more complex tasks that support independent living, such as cooking, shopping, managing finances, and using public transportation
Cost: $2,030

The RBP Standard Assessment Package is most appropriate for clients who have more specific assessment concerns or goals, or clients who have already had some testing completed.

Specific concerns or goals may include:

  • Intellectual Development Disorder
  • School readiness / preparedness / early entry
  • Giftedness / high cognitive or academic ability
Cost: $2,990

The RBP Comprehensive Learning Assessment Package is tailored for individuals who may be struggling academically due to one or more underlying challenges in attention, cognition, language, mental health or development of core academic skills in reading, writing or mathematics. Tailored to each individual, this assessment will explore any/all of the following:

  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
    Specific Learning Disorders (dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia)
  • Developmental intellectual disorders
  • Giftedness
  • Cognitive skills
  • Academic skills
  • Mental health problems such as anxiety or depression
  • Strengths and preferences
Cost: $3,750

The RBP Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental Assessment Package is appropriate for a broad range of learning, developmental, and mental health concerns. This assessment package explores a range of neurodevelopmental disorders/differences and mental health difficulties, which tend to co-occur, in the one assessment. This provides a thorough understanding of an individual’s strengths, differences, and difficulties and supports individuals to access the most appropriate support moving forward. Tailored to each individual, this assessment will explore any/all of the following:

  • Autism
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
  • Specific Learning Disorders (dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia)
  • Developmental intellectual disorders
  • Giftedness and twice exceptionality
  • Cognitive skills
  • Academic skills
  • Mental health problems such as anxiety, depression or trauma
  • Adaptive functioning / Daily living skills
  • Functional Capacity assessment for NDIS
  • Strengths and preferences
Book a Discovery Call
Enquire Now

Book Your Assessment

We believe that understanding how you think is the first step toward realising your potential. We’re here to guide every phase of the process—one step at a time.

Book Online
Contact Us

FAQs about Cognitive Assessment in Melbourne

Raise the Bar Psychology has a variety of cognitive assessment tools available to meet the needs of all individuals, regardless of age and individual differences:

  • Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence – Fourth Edition (WPPSI-IV)
  • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – Fifth Edition (WISC-V)
  • Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)
  • Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities – Fourth Edition (WJ-IV COG)
  • Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test – Second Edition (UNIT-2)
  • Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development – 4th Edition (Bayley-4)

A Cognitive Assessment will take 2.5 to 3 hours to complete. The process includes a half-hour intake, a 1.5 to 2 hour assessment session, and a half-hour feedback session, typically given two-four weeks after completing the assessment.

Cognitive ability refers to brain-based skills that help us take in different types of information (such as what we are hearing, reading or seeing) and produce different kinds of outputs (such as expressing ourselves in words or writing, coming up with new ideas, or solving a problem or creating something).

A cognitive assessment involves administering a set of novel tasks and activities in a one-to-one environment.

Different types of cognitive assessment batteries are available, with the best option being dependent on the individual’s age and various individual characteristics, such as their level of language and/or motor development and whether they are suspected of having very high or very low cognitive ability. The following are some of the most commonly used cognitive assessment batteries currently available:

  • The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler
  • Development – 4th Edition can assess cognitive development in children aged up to 3 years and six months.
  • The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence – Fourth Edition (WPPSI-IV) can be used with children from 2 years and six months to 7 years and seven months.
  • The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – Fifth Edition (WISC-V) can be used with children from 6 years to 16 years and 11 months.
  • The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) can be used with adolescents from 16 years and 0 months up to adults aged 90 years and 11 months.
  • The Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities – Fourth Edition (WJ-IV COG) can be used with individuals from 2 years of age to over 90 years
  • The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test – Second Edition (UNIT-2) can be used with children from 5 years and 0 months up to young adults aged 21 years and 11 months. A nonverbal intelligence test allows for the assessment of intelligence regardless of the individual’s language skills, hearing, cultural background, or English proficiency

Cognitive ability provides the foundation for learning, and a cognitive assessment offers insight into how someone learns best. Because everyone can learn differently, understanding how a particular individual learns best means that parents and teachers can know what is the best way to teach them, and the individual themselves can understand the best strategies they can use when learning something new.

A cognitive assessment typically results in an overall intellectual ability score (often called IQ score), which provides an understanding of how easy or difficult an individual may find the standard school curriculum. A cognitive assessment also typically provides additional understanding regarding an individual’s areas of strength (i.e., the things that come quite easily to them) and challenge (i.e., areas that they find tricky and need extra help with). Commonly assessed areas of cognitive ability include:

  • Verbal comprehension – the ability to use and understand language. This supports the ability to listen, speak, read, and write.
  • Fluid reasoning – the ability to problem-solve and reason with information to see how it is similar or different to what is already known
  • Visual spatial ability – interpret complex visual images and create and mentally manipulate images in one’s mind to problem solve
  • Working memory – the amount of verbal or visual information that can be held in one’s immediate awareness at one time, and the ability to manipulate that information to problem solve
  • Processing speed – how quickly and automatically you can take in information and produce outputs

A cognitive or intellectual assessment typically falls within the scope of a RBP Standard Assessment Package which is $2030. Enquire Now to find out more.