Evaluation & Assessment
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Inua Group Assessment Team offers comprehensive evaluations at the request of caregivers and schools. Our assessments are designed to provide a detailed understanding of a child's strengths while identifying potential diagnoses and areas requiring intervention and support.

Our team consists of experienced professionals with specialized training in interpreting clinical evaluation data within both the clinical and educational settings. We strive to deliver actionable insights that inform the development of individualized educational plans, counseling and therapy interventions, parenting strategies, and coordinated care among providers.

By collaborating closely with families, educators, and other professionals, we ensure that our assessments contribute to meaningful and effective support tailored to each child's unique needs.

Evaluations may include diagnosis and/or diagnostic clarification and update, assessment of specific skills and skill areas, identification of functional levels, and more. Our evaluation goals include answering questions brought by families and identifying each child's individual profile of strengths and challenges. We provide specific recommendations for how to use the information obtained through the evaluation at home, in school, and in therapeutic settings.

Inua Group specializes in bridging clinical and educational providers to support children's unique needs. Assessment information provided by Inua Group may also be used for applications to private schools and specialized programs within public schools (such as Highly Capable and other "Gifted and Talented" programs), as well as accommodations for standardized testing.

  • Interview of caregivers
  • Interview of community-based providers (when appropriate)
  • Interviews of school staff (when appropriate)
  • Review of records
  • Individual administration of assessment tools (direct testing)
  • Administration and interpretation of teacher, student, and caregiver questionnaires, surveys, checklists, and structured interviews
  • Observation of a child in school or other settings (when appropriate)

Areas of evaluation

  • Cognitive/Intellectual Functioning
  • Academic Achievement
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Executive Functioning
  • Learning and Memory
  • Social Skills and Social Communication
  • Language and Communication
  • Visual Motor Integration and related skills
  • Adaptive Functioning
  • Behavior
  • Mental and Emotional Health
  • Sensory-Motor Processing
In addition to a detailed assessment of their child's abilities and challenges, families also have an option to receive a strategic roadmap that outlines actionable steps for integrating the evaluation results both at home and in school through a consultation model, ensuring the findings translate into effective support.

Diagnostic Assessment

Many children and adolescents referred to us are highly complex, and many have multiple co-occurring disorders. Conditions typically assessed and diagnosed by the Inua Group evaluation team include:
  • ADHD
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Learning and communication disorders
  • Mental health (various)
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Depression
  • Mood regulation challenges
  • Behavioral disorders
  • Trauma-related disorders
  • Other neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Intellectual giftedness
  • Trauma-related conditions
Inua Group uses a team-based approach to assessment and evaluation. In addition to weekly consultation within the assessment team, our assessment team consults regularly with our schools and counseling teams to ensure our evaluations and recommendations are comprehensive. Among the assessment team, areas of expertise that can be relevant in evaluation and development of recommendations include:
  • Early childhood development
  • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
  • Trauma
  • Significant behavioral challenges
  • Anxiety
  • Intellectual disability
  • Nonverbal communication
  • Executive function deficits
  • Gifted/ Highly Capable learners
  • Twice exceptionality