SCHOLASTIC ASSESSMENT

Port Elizabeth | Eastern Cape

A full scholastic assessment consists of a variety of assessments that can determine the cause of a child or adolescent's underperformance at school or difficulty in certain academic areas. This pinpoints the specific areas that are acting as barriers to learning and allows for proper interventions or strategies that can best assist your child and allow them to perform to the best of their ability.

 

Areas assessed in a full scholastic assessment include: 

• Cognitive ability (IQ): Verbal and non verbal intelligence, processing speed and working memory

• Visual-motor integration, visual perception and motor coordination 

• Auditory memory and visual memory 

• Sight word efficiency and reading speed

• Phonemic decoding efficiency/phonological processing 

• Reading, spelling, and mathematical ability/level

• Reading comprehension

• Processing speed and overall speed level 

• Writing speed and accuracy 

 

From this information, suitable intervention strategies can be identified and implemented such as: ​​

• Exam concessions (extra time, separate venue, reader, scribe, prompter, lower pass mark, spelling concession, language exemption, maths exemption)

• Remedial intervention for identified learning difficulties (dyslexia, dyscalculia)

• Referral to other specialists for identified issues during assessment (Occupational Therapist, Audiologist, Optometrist, Speech Therapist)

• Special school placement (low support, moderate support, high support, mainstream curriculum, adapted curriculum or technical curriculum)