What we do:
When you have concerns regarding your child’s progress, we understand that you want as much information as possible in a short amount of time. Academic Insights can help ensure that clients are performing to the best of their potential by providing data on both strengths and areas for growth. We are uniquely qualified to advise stakeholders on how best to utilize evaluation information to tailor best practices for student success. While districts are governed by timelines that allow several months for testing and reporting and other practices have waitlists months long, our commitment is to keep our queue reasonable. We only take as many clients as we can serve in a timely manner. We know that when you are concerned about your child, the last thing you want is unnecessary delays in attaining the help you need.
Our Services:
Full psychoeducational assessment for children:
We provide Full Individual Evaluations (FIEs), Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs), and re-evaluations. These batteries are tailored to your specific concerns for your child. Psychoeducational assessment includes a data analysis and a comprehensive report. Assessment may uncover unanticipated information, but goals for assessment may include the following:
Identification or ruling out of exceptionality including but not limited to
Dyslexia or Hyperlexia
Dysgraphia
Dyscalculia
Global Learning Disability or Intellectual Disability
Giftedness
Twice exceptionality (for example, giftedness comorbid with dyslexia or ADHD with dysgraphia)
General learning profile for your child- by identifying strengths and weaknesses, parents can target information delivery to help students of any ability reach maximum potential
IQ testing only:
Parents may request this assessment for admittance to certain programs and schools. Parents may also be interested in this information in order to specifically target their child’s cognitive learning style. Examples of batteries used include WISC-V, KABC-II NU, or WPPSI-IV.
Academic advisement:
Records are reviewed and parents receive advisement regarding the best academic track for their child. This might include previous testing, reports from teachers, IEP paperwork, state/local testing.
Parent trainings:
Be on the lookout for parent trainings on topics such as preparing for your child’s IEP meeting, reading your child’s FIE, and understanding which services most benefit your child. These are held at various times over zoom.
Achievement testing only:
Standardized achievement testing can help to establish baselines for learning. Batteries can be tailored to your specific concerns for your child. Examples of batteries used might include TOD, KTEA-III, and/or WIAT-4. In addition, data provided regarding progress in school is considered.
ARD Meeting preparation advisement:
Your child’s school should send documentation of their proposed actions prior to any meeting. These proposals can be reviewed ahead of time so that parents are adequately prepared to advocate for their child when they attend the meeting. Kasey will help you review your child’s PLAAFP, proposed goals, proposed placement, and accommodations prior to sitting at the table. This will help you better understand the actions being proposed for your child and come equipped with any changes that would be appropriate to propose for your child Kasey can also ensure that IEPs are aligned with your child’s FIE data.
School readiness:
A shorter assessment for younger children beginning around age 3 in order to determine level of kindergarten readiness and steps to take prior to kindergarten or prekindergarten. Examples of batteries used might include BBCS-4 R, BSRA-4, WPPSI-IV, and/or KTEA-III.
ARD/504 Meeting advisement:
Kasey can attend your child’s 504 or ARD meeting with you in order to ensure parents understand the data used and proposed actions, that the school is honoring the best interest of the child and the law, and that parents and the school can come to a reasonable agreement. Our goal will always be consensus. The outcome for the child is almost always better when the adults can come to agreement. In the cases that agreement cannot be reached, Kasey can walk parents through non- consensus and all legal options.