Neuropsychology Assessment
About
A neuropsychology assessment with CapacityPlus typically involves one to two assessment sessions with your neuropsycholigist, that are tailored to the specific needs of each client, a report feedback session with your neuropsychologist, and the provision of the neuropsychology assessment report.
CapacityPlus is committed to understanding and supporting the individual needs of each person that engages in neuropsychology assessment. CapacityPlus provides a report and feedback that goes beyond diagnosis. Our neuropsychology assessment reports provide tailored and thoughtful recommendations for supports that are designed to assist individuals to improve their capacity for independence, social integration, and quality of life.
The CapacityPlus team includes specialists in paediatric neuropsychology, adult neuropsychology, older-adult neuropsychology, and medico-legal (criminal and civil) neuropsychology.
Learn more about Paediatric Neuropsychology Assessments, Adult Neuropsychology Assessments, Older-Adult Neuropsychology Assessments and Medico-Legal Neuropsychology Assessments below.
Paediatric Neuropsychology Assessments
Why you might see us
Areas of assessment
Diagnoses considered
Tests we offer
- Identify and understand learning needs
- Support transitions through schooling
- To develop a support plan for your child’s needs at school and in social settings
- Gain insight into something you are seeing or that feels different to you
- To support a funding application such as NDIS
- Attention
- Working memory
- Processing speed
- Learning and Memory
- Academic skills
- Emotional wellbeing
- Social Communication skills
- Autism
- ADHD
- Specific Learning Disorders (Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia)
- Giftedness
- Intellectual Disability
- Global Development Delay
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V)
- Wechsler Preschool & Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI-IV)
- Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-III)
- Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2)
- Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS-3)
- Connors 3
- Behaviour Assessment System for Children (BASC-3)
Adult & Older-Adult Neuropsychology Assessments
Why you might see us
Areas of assessment include
Diagnoses often considered include
- To find out the strengths and weaknesses in your thinking skills, particularly after a head injury or illness such as stroke
- To understand what might be contibuting to any thinking difficulties you experience and what might help
- To support the maintenance of independence for as long as possible
- To identity and plan for any needs for supported decision making
- You are an older-adult seeking to create a will
- You have concerns about your memory, processing, or attention
- Decision-making capacity (personal, financial, medical)
- Testamentary capacity (to ensure validity of a will)
- Age based assessment of cognition/cognitive decline
- Longstanding conditions such as intellectual disability, autism, specific learning difficulties
- Normal healthy ageing
- Neuro-degenerative diseases like dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease), MS or Parkinson’s disease
- Acquired brain injury, such as traumatic brain injury, hypoxia, stroke or other medical conditions
- Mood disturbances (like anxiety or depression) and psychiatric conditions
Medico-Legal Neuropsychology Assessments
Why you might see us
CapacityPlus provides Medico-Legal services for criminal and civil matters including:
- providing opinion on Verden’s Principles
- fitness to plead
- family law and parenting capacity
- independent medical examinations in the context of personal injury
Neuropsychology Assessment Locations
After Your Neuropsychology Assessment
CapacityPlus provides neuropsychology assessments in-person in Melbourne, Geelong and Warrnambool.
Out-reach services are available to residents in Aged Care facilities in Melbourne, Geelong and Warrnambool.
Video-telehealth neuropsychology assessments are also available.
Clients often benefit from ongoing work with neuropsychology following their assessment.
CapacityPlus provides tailored cognitive rehabilitation and intervention programmes to support individuals who are seeking support to manage any identified areas of difficulty and improve their quality of life.