This assessment refers to examining the student’s ability to learn, the areas of strengths and those areas that may require further assistance. To conduct a learning achievement test, we use standardised tools and we examine the student’s skills in areas such as reading fluency, reading accuracy, reading comprehension, writing, maths, oral expression and many more. Then we analyse the results and compare them to students with the same age and grade to see whether the student is underachieving in any of the areas assessed, and how we can use their strengths to aid the learning procedure.

Furthermore, the learning achievement assessment is always combined with a cognitive assessment. In this way, the results from both tests will be compared, to examine whether the student is achieving at the level he is able to based on his cognitive skills.

Using these results, we are then able to make reliable judgments, or diagnose any learning difficulties presented. What is most important though, is to offer targeted and individualised recommendations.

A comprehensive assessment is always conducted, to have information from different sources, in different environments, and to combine them with clinical observations and the results from standardised tests. For primary school aged children, a comprehensive assessment consists of a school visit for an observation of the student and an interview with the teacher, two meetings with the parents, one at the beginning and one at the end of the assessment, questionnaires sent to parents, teachers or adolescents, and meetings with the students, in my office where the assessment would take place. After the end of the assessment, a written report will be provided to the parents, with a thorough description of the findings, individualised and targeted suggestions and recommendations.