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Client Feedback:

Recent unsolicited feedback from an adult assessed as a child by Dr. Stern:

"I can say that I am where I am now in no small part due to your thorough, comprehensive, and compassionate evaluations. They gave my parents and teachers the information they needed to help bring out the best in me. For that, I am grateful beyond words." 

Some recent unsolicited emails from parents whose children were evaluated by Dr. Stern:

"The people at XXX's school said that her report was the best they have ever seen."

"I would like to thank Dr. Jonathan Stern for a job well done testing and evaluating our daughter. Forced to meet CSE Review Team deadlines and time constraints, Dr. Stern responded quickly and flexibly to satisfy all the requirements... The CSE Psychologist highlighted how user-friendly, visually accessible and graphically well organized Dr. Stern's evaluation and report were for them to work with... [She] said that Dr. Stern's format and evaluation presentation could be used as a model and template for evaluators for ease of use, quick access of relevant tests, scoring and summary evaluations. Please consider recommending and referring Dr. Stern as your evaluator of choice for CSE Review teams."

"I am forwarding YYY's most recent teachers' reports-- these speak for themselves. We have you to thank for the extraordinary change... We are very grateful for your insight and invaluable work." 


 


PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL

ASSESSMENTS

A comprehensive psychoeducational assessment is often the best way to understand what is causing your child’s academic struggles, as well as emotional and behavioral difficulties, at school. A helpful assessment is one that is relatively jargon-free and easy to understand, that pulls together all the information to give you a clear picture of what’s causing your child’s learning strengths and weaknesses, and that gives clear and useful suggestions both to your child’s school and to you (and often to your child as well) about how best to help your child with each of his/her struggles. Dr. Stern’s reports also have a summary sheet for easy use by parents and teachers, and they explain to parents what are all the components of learning and how they are assessed.

Dr. Stern’s psychoeducational assessments are tailor-made to your child’s particular struggles, strengths and weaknesses, but they always explore the following areas of functioning:

• Current intellectual functioning: verbal and visual-spatial skills, working memory, and processing speed;

• Input: auditory and visual information processing, receptive language and comprehension, sequencing, and attention and concentration;

• Memory: phonological, visual short-term, auditory short-term, and working memory;

• Output: expressive language, handwriting, planning and organization;

• Academic Functioning: reading, writing, math;

• Current Emotional Functioning

As consulting psychologist to a boarding school for students with learning and attentional challenges for almost 15 years, Dr. Stern is very experienced at teasing apart subtle learning and attentional difficulties, and at looking at their interplay with emotional difficulties such as anxiety and depression.

Complete assessments usually include three to four meetings for testing, and then a feedback session for parents. This session can include the child, or Dr. Stern can meet separately with the student, as needed. Contact with the school both before and after testing is provided, if the parents of the child, in consultation with Dr. Stern, think that it would be helpful.