Cognitive Ability (IQ) Assessment

Explore Cognitive Strengths

In-Depth Cognitive Assessments to Identify Strengths, Challenges, and Learning Potential

Cognitive/IQ assessments are standardized and comprehensive assessments designed to measure an individual’s verbal and non-verbal cognitive abilities and intellectual functioning.


The purpose of these assessments is to assess a learner’s ability and therefore allows us to predict scholastic achievement, inform on appropriate school placement, is required for exam concessions, identify components that could influence learning ability and scholastic achievements, and assist with career guidance.

 

This assessment can help guide developmental pathways by evaluating an individual's strengths and weaknesses over a wide range of cognitive areas, identify gifted children and guide informed intervention decisions.

Overview of cognitive abilities that are assessed

Verbal cognitive ability

  • Verbal intelligence
  • Verbal learning ability
  • Language development and usage
  • Long term memory
  • Comprehension of social situations
  • General knowledge
  • Social judgement and knowledge of conventional standards of behaviour
  • Abstract verbal reasoning
  • Ability to categorise, summarise and form concepts
  • Numerical reasoning
  • Logical reasoning
  • Abstract thought
  • Mental alertness
  • Concentration
  • Short term memory of facts
  • Ability to acquire, retain and retrieve meaningful information
  • Ability to pay attention
  • Sequencing skills
  • Verbal expression

Non-verbal cognitive ability

  • Logical reasoning
  • Visual perception and organisation
  • Concept formation
  • Spatial relations
  • Form perception
  • Abstract conceptualisation
  • Visual-motor coordination
  • Visual memory
  • Ability to see underlying relations between objects
  • Visual associative ability
  • Short term memory
  • Concentration
  • Ability to distinguish between essential and non-essential visual information
  • Attention to detail

This assessment can be conducted on individuals between the ages 3 years to 17 years and takes 2-4 hours to complete.

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