We specialize in understanding what disorders may be affecting your child’s brain — and behavior. We provide thorough, accurate and sensitive assessments that can provide a diagnosis.
Our assessments may include spending time with your child, reviewing medical and school records, consulting with other professionals on your care team or observing your child at school.
Our clinic welcomes everyone, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation or other individual differences. We test children as young as 18 months through young adults.
Our assessments look for specific problems, including:
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD
- Language-based learning disabilities
- Emotional or behavioral problems
- Developmental delays
- Tourette’s syndrome
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Executive functions disorder
- Communication disorders
We also offer testing services for speech and language problems. We may look for oral-motor movement and articulation, language challenges (such as receptive and expressive language development), social pragmatics, reading challenges and stuttering.
Frequently asked questions
In children, a developmental neurobehavioral issue may look like laziness, lack of motivation or defiance. These issues can be driven by a difference in a child’s brain. We can identify a developmental neurobehavioral issue by looking at patterns of behavior, thoughts, emotions or social interactions. Some neurobehavioral issues include:
- Language-based learning disability
- Nonverbal learning disability
- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
- Tourette syndrome
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Executive function disorder
- Communication disorders
Your child is OK, right now, exactly as they are. With the appropriate diagnosis, treatment and support, your child can achieve their potential. Coaching, tutoring and remediation can build your child’s strengths and help them academically, socially and emotionally.
Every assessment varies from child to child. Everyone can expect a parent intake session (about an hour), along with six to nine hours of testing. We also talk to teachers and other professionals in your child’s life. We may also request that? a speech-language pathologist meet with your child to understand how they can help.
We provide a written report with tailored recommendations, as well as a parent feedback session. If your child is old enough, we may also have a child feedback session.
From intake to feedback, the process can take four to six weeks.
We look at a broad range of issues, depending on you and your child’s concerns. We may measure:
- Cognitive abilities
- Academic achievement
- Language development
- Memory and learning skills
- Attention and executive function
- Visual-motor skills
- Social-emotional function
- Personality and self-concept
We also talk with parents, teachers and other professionals in your child’s life.
We partner with local graduate programs to provide clinical training to doctoral level psychology students. Your child may be assessed by a licensed clinical psychologist or a graduate student under the direct supervision of a licensed clinical psychologist.
Direct services at RNBC may be provided either directly by or with the support of a graduate student under the direct supervision of a doctoral-level clinical psychologist or neuropsychologist.
Our supervisors are experts in understanding, assessing, and treating neurobehavioral disorders. RNBC boasts a multidisciplinary team of individuals who work together to diagnose and treat children and adolescents with a variety of disorders. In addition to psychologists, our clinical team includes school psychologists, and a speech-language pathologist.
Talk with your child about testing beforehand, and explain it’s like a checkup for their mental and brain health. You can also tell your child they will get information about how they learn (both at school and in other places) and how they make friends. This information will help them with any challenges they’ve been having at school or at home.
During the assessment, we make sure children take breaks, play games and have snacks. We find children usually enjoy the experience and may find some of the tests interesting.