Evaluations
What Dr. Paschal offers
Every evaluation starts with a parent interview. After that, the visits follow your child's questions.
Gifted evaluation
How your child reasons with words and shapes, holds information in mind, works under time and uses school skills.
Gifted evaluationReasoning and problem solving
Memory and speed
Reading, writing and math
Twice-exceptional evaluation
High ability and a question about attention, learning or sensory load, studied together so neither hides the other.
Twice-exceptional evaluationAbility and the question side by side
A report that describes both
School letters
A one-page letter for your child's school, written only when you ask and sign a release.
School lettersAfter the feedback visit
Sent only to the person you name
How testing works
The parent interview, the testing visits, the report and the feedback visit.
How testing worksParents first, then your child
Results in person
Questions
Before you choose an evaluation
Which evaluation is right for my child?
Dr. Paschal decides with you at the parent interview. If your child learns fast and nothing else worries you, a gifted evaluation fits. If there is also a question about attention, learning or sensory load, a twice-exceptional evaluation looks at both.
Can my child be tested without knowing why?
Dr. Paschal talks with your child before testing, in plain words, about what the visits are for. He asks you first what your child has been told.
How much does testing cost, and how do fees work?
Testing is one fee for the whole evaluation, set by your child's questions and age, and you have it in writing before you start. How fees work explains what is included, the reduced-fee spots and the estimate.
Start with a parent interview
You come without your child, and you leave with a plan and a written estimate.