School Support and Ability
School Support & Ability
School support strategies often step from parents or a young person noticing something is ‘wrong’. This may include losing focus, school refusal, self harm, anxiety, depression or a drop in academic achievements.
These issues don’t always represent what they ‘appear’ to. Gifted students for example may simply lose interest due to being insufficiently stimulated or an undiagnosed “Aspy” girl might become depressed due to increased social demands and wanting to ‘fit in’.
At Mental Health Spot we help young people and their families not only accurately identify the source of difficulties but put in place holistic measures for support and self-management. We can work extensively with schools, parents and young people to provide ability, adaptive and achievement reports, but also psycho-social and behaviour parameters to promote a safe and successful school life.
A full psycho-educational-social profile can provide importance guidance for interventions.
School interventions are designed to evaluate your child’s strengths and weaknesses and assist the understanding of areas of potential concern in your child’s development, behaviour or mental health that may affect them at school.
School strategies may include assessments, behavioural plans, mental health support recommendations and group meetings with the school staff and parents.
Assessments may include;
- Mood or other mental health factors (Anxiety, Depression, Oppositional behaviour, Social problems, Emotional control)
- General intellectual functioning (IQ)
- Memory
- Attention, concentration, impulsivity (including ADHD screening)
- Language: comprehension, expression & fluency
- Speed of information processing
- Visual perceptual skills
- Visual-motor integration
- Planning/organisation
And More…
- qEEG brainwave activity
- Intellectual functioning: verbal reasoning, nonverbal reasoning, working memory, processing speed
- Reading accuracy, reading speed & reading comprehension
- Spelling & writing
- Phonological Awareness: blending, segmentation, rapid naming, phonological memory, non-word reading
- Mathematical operations and reasoning
- Memory: visual & verbal memory, immediate and delayed memory, recognition memory
- Attention: visual sustained attention, auditory sustained attention, switching attention, divided attention, selective attention
- Attention/ memory span: auditory & visual
- Impulsivity & stimulation (boredom) levels- to both auditory and visual information
- Executive functioning: planning, organisation, abstract reasoning, self-monitoring, utilising feedback
- Processing speed: visual and auditory
- Cognitive flexibility
- Visual processing: discrimination, figure-ground, spatial skills, closure, form constancy
- Auditory processing: discrimination, figure-ground, filtered hearing, ear dominance
- Psychological issues: depression, anxiety, anger/frustration, aggression, self-esteem