When a child, teen, or college student is struggling in school, families need strong and reliable advice provided in a caring and compassionate manner. Dr. Davenport has over 25 years of experience providing this type of assistance.
Dr. Davenport provides comprehensive, goal-oriented, and research-based cognitive, developmental, and learning evaluations tailored to assess the individual and unique needs of your child, teen, or college student struggling with reading, writing, and/or math.
Throughout the evaluation process, Dr. Davenport methodically gathers reliable information about your student’s developmental, intellectual, and academic strengths and needs utilizing information from parents, educators, and objective research-proven assessment tools.
He then develops a written report outlining practical recommendations designed to help you, educators, and other professionals provide research-based treatment and accommodations that support your student’s needs while building on his or her strengths.
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The Assessment is Completed in Three Appointments
Here’s what you can expect.
Before Your First Appointment
Before the first appointment, you are asked to complete our detailed questionnaire. Because the questions asked are highly correlated to specific learning disorders, developmental challenges, and executive functioning difficulties, this questionnaire helps Dr. Davenport start to tailor the assessment to meet unique needs.
Your First Appointment
During your first appointment, Dr. Davenport’s first goal is to help you and your child or teen feel comfortable. He strives to help you leave this appointment feeling more hopeful and less stressed than when you arrived. He wants you to know that you are in control of the plan to identify and address your child’s needs.
During a thorough and structured clinical interview, Dr. Davenport will ask you several questions designed to consider the nature, history, duration, and impact of any learning or developmental challenges so that he can develop a thorough assessment plan focused on documenting your student’s needs.
Next, he will ask questions to either rule-out or identify any attention, social, or emotional challenges at home, at school, and in other settings. Schools, doctors, and other professionals who will use your student’s report expect that Dr. Davenport will gather this information.
At the end of this appointment, Dr. Davenport will outline a plan for assessing your child’s learning, developmental, thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
He will also provide standardized questionnaires to obtain teacher observations of your student’s learning, adaptive functioning, attention, and social/emotional strengths and needs.
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For students aged 6 to 18, he will provide Teacher Report Forms of the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist
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For younger children, he will provide the appropriate Teacher or Caregiver Report Form of the Child Behavior Checklist
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College students will leave this appointment with the Achenbach Adult Self Report and Adult Behavior Checklist
Your Second Appointment
During this appointment, your child, teen, or college student will complete a comprehensive and individualized evaluation designed to assess his or her specific and unique strengths and needs utilizing the latest assessment tools for measuring intellectual, developmental, and academic abilities.
Over the past 25 years, Dr. Davenport has learned that any amount of testing over four hours is unnecessarily long for children, teens, (and even adults), and can lead to invalid results due to fatigue or distractibility.
Your Third Appointment
During this session, test results and recommendations are discussed with you.
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Specific strengths and needs are summarized from the tests administered. Parent and educator observations are integrated into this discussion.
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Specific diagnoses are explained in understandable terms.
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Recommendations for treating and accommodating specific needs in the classroom, socially, and at home are discussed.
Your child, teen, or college student is also provided age-appropriate information about his or her strengths, needs, and recommendations.
A Comprehensive Written Report is Provided
Within 3 weeks after your third appointment, a comprehensive written report you can share with educators and other helping professionals is prepared and e-mailed to you.
This report describes strengths and needs, specific diagnoses, and recommendations for research-based remediation and accommodations to be implemented by his or her private or public school or college educators and other professionals.
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