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Cognitive IQ Assessment
The inner workings of your brain are fascinating but complex. A cognitive and IQ assessment can provide detailed insights into your cognitive abilities, covering key areas such as problem-solving, attention, reasoning and learning. Plus, an IQ test can assess general intelligence and help you understand how you process information.
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Whether you’re looking to further your personal development, navigating career choices or seeking accommodations at work or school, a cognitive assessment is a good place to start. For adults, these assessments can help you understand your cognitive strengths and challenges.
Designed for:
- Seeking a diagnosis for cognitive conditions, such as an intellectual disability, functional capacity, specific learning challenges (such as dyslexia, dysgraphia or dyscalculia), giftedness, attention challenges, executive functioning difficulties and memory
- Looking to gain personal clarity and self-awareness
- Seeking to pinpoint underlying brain-based difficulties, such as challenges with learning new skills, communicating or daily functioning
- Looking to pursue further education or inform their career choices
- Ready to discover areas for developing specific skills and areas for accommodations
- Wanting to gain insight into co-occurring mental health challenges (e.g. anxiety)
Gain a comprehensive understanding of how your brain works
Your cognition powers everything you do. A deeper insight into your IQ and cognitive capacity can help you better understand yourself and your experience of the world. An assessment and accurate diagnosis is the first step to better self-awareness and a deeper recognition of what you do best. Plus, this assessment can help you manage expectations in the workplace and with loved ones, and gain access to support services that can help you thrive in work and life.
This assessment at a glance
Complete an Intake Form
Firstly, we ask you to complete a questionnaire that is broadly describes your concerns and needs for assessment. If we need more information we will give you a call.
Developing an Assessment Plan
Our therapists will review your form to confirm what type of assessment is best suited to your needs and goals. Once you are happy with our recommendations, we will organise the right clinicians to provide this assessment service (as a large health service we have a number of different options for assessing adolescents and adults).
Assessment
On the assessment day, we’ll use a mix of interviewing and activities to get to know you over a few hours. We’ll focus our questions on your history as well as strengths and current concerns.
Feedback and Recommendations
At the end of the assessment we will provide feedback to you where we explain the outcomes of the assessment, how we are understanding your needs, and we will provide you with recommendations for how to get the best and most appropriate support.
Throughcare
We will do our best to support you to find the help that has been recommended. Sometimes we can provide this for you but other times we may need to refer you to another service. Either way, we will support you through your journey in any way we can.
How to prepare for assessment day
Get a good night’s sleep and enjoy a nourishing breakfast before this assessment. On the assessment day, make sure to bring your glasses if you wear them and take any medications as you usually would (please ask us if you are unsure about this). This assessment uses an interview along with intellectual testing and tasks that assess executive functioning.
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Complete this brief Online Intake Questionnaire (2 mins) to speed up the process for booking your initial appointment at Marsden Health. We will contact you as soon as it’s complete.