Is your child struggling in school?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above - you are not alone.

• Learning Profiles evaluations focus on both your child’s strengths and weaknesses.
• Learning Profiles evaluations include all necessary components for a DSM-IV diagnosis and meet all public schools criteria.
• Learning Profiles reports can be customized to make recommendations for private schools that specialize in working with students with disabilities.
• Testing instruments are used based on your child’s abilities, not based on a predetermined proclivity towards a specific testing instrument.  
• A detailed report is provided upon completion of evaluation that not only describes the SPECIFIC area your child is having difficulties but WHY these learning problems are occurring.
• Learning Profiles evaluations can be used for testing accommodations.

What are the benefits of having an evaluation administered by Learning Profiles?  Learning Profiles evaluations are personalized and tailored to meet your child’s needs. Interviews are conducted with parents, and information is gathered from your child’s teacher prior to testing to determine which assessment instruments should be used to most accurately capture your child’s strengths and weaknesses.

As the evaluation progresses, additional tests are used based on your child’s performance. When the evaluation is complete, a detailed and individualized report is written that not only explains your child’s abilities, but relates their specific strengths and weaknesses to their academic progress and behavioral functioning.  Disorders according to the DSM-IV, or eligibilities according to public school criteria are given if the criteria are met.

Many test practitioners use a “one size fits all” model: a series of tests is administered, regardless of the individual child’s needs.  These assessments often give overlapping information and are given in an effort to beef up the report. This additional testing is unnecessary, and often provides contradictory information as the child’s attention and concentration wanes during the various sessions. (A simple analogy would be your doctor ordering an MRI, EKG, blood tests, and a chest X-ray, when the patients primary complaint is a knee injury.)  Just because someone can administer extraneous tests does not mean they should - or that these additional test will provide any useful information. Learning Profiles evaluations reflect your child, not the quantity of testing instruments available to us.

Can a Learning Profiles evaluation provide my child with necessary accommodations for the SAT, PSAT, ACT or AP exams?  Learning Profiles evaluations will satisfy the evaluation requirements as mandated by College Board and the ACT for testing accommodations, if there is a disability, and accommodations are necessary.

Can a Learning Profiles evaluation provide my child with accommodations for the FCAT?  There is no evaluation that can require schools to give accommodations on the FCAT. That decision is made by school based teams who review all the relevant information based on your child’s educational performance. However, a Learning Profiles evaluation can provide information as to WHY your child would need accommodations to be successful on the FCAT.  This information can then be provided to your child's school for them to consider when making a final decision.