SERVICES

EVALUATION SERVICES

EdVantage can provide evaluations to diagnose educational disabilities.   A core evaluation consists of cognitive testing, academic achievement testing, phonological processing testing, and oral reading testing.   The report contains extensive information about the child’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, academic weaknesses, and phonological processing.  The report contains an extensive explanation of how the cognitive weaknesses can affect the child’s performance as well as recommendations to help the child with those areas of weakness.  Similarly, the academic testing provides detailed information about a child’s academic performance, how their weaknesses manifest, and recommendations to support those areas. 

Cognitive testing evaluates the following cognitive areas:

  • Verbal Comprehension/Crystallized Intelligence

  • Visual Spatial Processing

  • Auditory Processing

  • Short-Term Memory

  • Long-Term Storage and Retrieval

  • Processing Speed

  • Fluid Reasoning

Academic Achievement testing evaluates performance in the following areas:

  • Reading

  • Reading Comprehension

  • Spelling

  • Written Expression

  • Math Problem Solving

  • Math Calculation

  • Oral Expression

  • Listening Comprehension

Phonological Awareness testing evaluates phonological processing skills, such as phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid automatized naming.

Oral Reading testing evaluates the child’s reading accuracy, fluency, and reading comprehension. 

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER TESTING

EdVantage can also evaluate for Autism Spectrum Disorder.  In addition to the testing listed above, assessments specifically focused on Autism are performed.  These include questionnaires from teachers and parents, observation reports from teachers, and play-based structured assessments.  

SPECIAL EDUCATION CONSULTING

EdVantage can provide a variety of consulting services to educational institutions.  These can include helping a school develop their Special Education Department, program evaluations, IEP training, co-teaching support, develop policies and procedures, develop standardized forms, staff training, classroom support, develop MTSS and RTI procedures, and a variety of other services.  

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

EdVantage can provide targeted professional development to educational institutions.   These can include PD on understanding IEPs, the role of Special Education in the institution, differentiation, provision of accommodations/modifications, behavior management, data collection, and a variety of other topics.