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Is your child struggling in school? Is your child having problems with behavior at home? Are you wondering what this is all about?
This service is helpful in identifying a variety of mental health and learning problems, including:
TELL Counseling provides comprehensive psychological assessment services for children and adolescents in Japanese and English. Since we began offering this service in 2007, TELL Counseling has provided assessments for students of local and international schools in Japan, Japanese returnees, as well as children from bi-cultural families.
Psychological assessment service at TELL Counseling is conducted in a series of different methods/procedures, such as interviews with family members and educators, observations, standardized tests, and checklists. This service is administered by our experienced clinical psychologists and clinical neuropsychologists and individually designed to meet the needs of
each child.
Based on the result of the evaluation, our psychologists also offer appropriate recommendations and support to the child’s family and educators. This service is offered only in-person at our Tokyo office. Please note that all reports are delivered in English.
| 1 | Intake Interview with Parents (50 minutes, online)
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| 2 | Finalizing the Assessment days (via email)
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| 3 | Assessment Day (1 – 2 days – at TELL office) |
| After 6 weeks from the last day of assessment | |
| 4 | Report and Feedback Session (50 min – online)
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Exceptions beyond other
assessment packages
Hours/location: 1 day/ TELL office
Intelligence (WPPSI-IV,
WISC-V or WAIS-V)
Hours/location: 2-3 hours/ TELL office
Includes: Assessment only
Intelligence and school academic concerns: Reading, math, writing, and brief social emotional
concerns
Includes: Assessment, feedback
session, and written report
Intelligence, school academic concerns, and cognitive functioning (i.e., attention, memory, executive functioning).
● Bilingual assessment
(English & Japanese)
● Social emotional
concerns
● Diagnostic evaluation
Hours/location: 2 days/ TELL
office
Includes: Assessment, feedback session, written report, and one teacher meeting (if requested)
Intelligence and ASD related assessment:
● Language
● Behavior
● Social emotional
● Adaptive skills
Hours/location: 1 session/
TELL office
2 sessions/
Online (Online
observation
and interview)
Includes: Assessment, feedback
session, written report, and one teacher meeting (if requested)
*Additional meeting with teachers will cost in addition to a package price.
**The price may vary depending on a child’s needs.
The main differences among all assessments are “the areas that can be assessed.” Our staff will suggest to your family the most suitable assessments based on the concerns that are raised at home or school.
Comprehensive Neuropsychological Assessment
Neuropsychological assessment provides information regarding structural brain integrity. This process is completed by the evaluation and observation of behavior, development and standard neurological abilities.
Through the analysis of the results, this assessment can help determine whether the child meets certain diagnoses. This can also assist our understanding of the child’s inherent unique set of strengths and challenges. Tailored recommendations on how to appropriately support and accommodate the child’s needs can help them reach their ultimate potential. Specific and specialized instructional strategies for both in class and at home are included. If treatment is needed, the most effective ones are also recommended. Recommendations may also include items related to important domains of life such as social skills, emotion regulation, behavior management strategies and family coping.
For the adults in the child’s life, this assessment helps them to better understand why the child may be experiencing challenges in school or at home. They would also be able to use the recommendations to support the child. TELL provides a written evaluation report and a feedback session with parents. Upon the parents’ consent, a feedback session with teachers or the school can also be arranged.
For families who were recommended by the school:
Neurological problems including developmental related disorders manifest in a number of ways in the child’s life. Some of the more overt manifestations can become evident when observed during the school day where more cognitive demands are required to perform various activities.
Teachers and other professionals at school may have opportunities to observe a number of signs of neurological/cognitive impairments across a variety of settings and with a mix of children. This is one of the reasons why schools may ask parents to have the child evaluated.
Autism Spectrum Disorder Assessment
TELL Counseling is able to provide a comprehensive assessment for those with potential Autism Spectrum Disorder. Such an assessment allows parents and teachers to fully understand the individual’s level of cognitive functioning, adaptive skills, communication, social interaction, and development.
TELL Counseling has selected evidence-based assessment tools which have achieved a high level of validation (broadly used in the field), and requires all testers to receive assessment-specific training and also meet educational and certification requirements to be professionally ready to use such tools.
By requiring such qualifications, TELL Counseling is able to provide recommendations on how to support the tested individual for each of the areas where intervention is advised. Additionally, based upon the information provided by the assessment, TELL Counseling is better able to provide a more comprehensive view of child development. This helps parents/guardians better understand ways to assist the child to improve their functionality in the indicated areas and to better prepare the child to be successful and more resilient.
Our legal definition of a child is according to the Japanese law: a minor under 18 years of age.
Adult cases will be conducted on a case-to-case basis. We usually do not assess adult clients for following reasons:
If you are seeking our assessment for different purposes, please contact us.
We accept inquiries from school teachers/tutors, but only parents and legal guardians can initiate the process and make an appointment. For more information regarding scheduling an appointment for your child, please click here.
Besides English, we are able to offer psychological assessment in Japanese. We may suggest your child conduct a psychological assessment in Japanese if your child’s first language is Japanese or if you suspect any learning problem in language. However, please note that our written report will be provided in English.
We only provide this service in our Tokyo office. You are welcome to do an intake session from your home as it will be conducted online. However, for assessment, we ask you to come to our Tokyo office for two days for comprehensive neuropsychological assessment and 1 day for academic assessment. If you are planning to visit us outside of Kanto area and are unable to stay long, please consult with us.
The length of assessment will depend on what package your family chose. For neuropsychological assessment, 2 sessions on 2 separate days are usually required. The length of assessment sessions may vary depending on the age and needs of the child, language spoken, referral questions, and so on.
The majority of the children complete the session around lunch time on the 2nd day (1 and 1/2 days) whereas other children need 2 full days.
For Autism Spectrum Disorder Assessment, 1 in-person session and 2 online sessions are required. An in-person session will take approximately 1~2 hours. Online sessions will be 1~2 hours per session.
Please note that we will ask your child to refrain from going to school on the days of the assessment to maximize performance.
No, you do not have to prepare your child for the assessment. The psychologist will explain the testing procedure to the child in the beginning. For younger children, please explain that there will be no medical exam involved. For best performance, we expect your child to be in good physical health with good sleep a day before the assessment day.
If your child wears glasses, a hearing aid, or any other devices, please bring them to our Tokyo office. Also, please bring a drink and a light snack for break.
The suitable assessment package will depend on what concerns your child has and what you hope to understand through assessment. There is no problem if you do not know yet which package will be appropriate for your child or if assessment is the best option. By obtaining information from the intake form and interview with parents, we hope to provide options to help your child.