Psychoeducational assessments in Invermere

A psychoeducational assessment helps you understand how your child thinks and learns, where they’re struggling, and what may help them do well. You’ll get a written report with practical recommendations for home and school.

Start with a short Inquiry

What it can help you understand

  • Learning strengths and difficulties in reading, writing or math
  • Thinking, reasoning, memory and processing
  • Attention, organization and executive functioning
  • Emotional or behavioural factors that affect learning
  • Questions about giftedness or intellectual functioning

Where it fits, the assessment may identify a Specific Learning Disorder, ADHD or an Intellectual Disability. The report can support school planning, an Individual Education Plan (IEP) or accommodation requests. Schools make their own decisions about designations and supports.

How it works

  1. Inquiry form: your child’s age and grade, your main concerns and any deadlines.
  2. Your plan and fee: confirmed in writing before booking.
  3. Parent intake meeting: about 1–1.5 hours, without your child, in person or online.
  4. Questionnaires: for parents, and with your permission, your child’s teacher.
  5. Testing with your child: usually 2–3 appointments of about three hours, often in the morning, with breaks.
  6. Report: about 3–4 weeks after testing and questionnaires are complete.
  7. Parent feedback meeting: about 1–1.5 hours, in plain language. Age-appropriate feedback for your child can be arranged too.
  8. School meeting (optional): with your permission; any extra fee is confirmed first.

Why a full assessment?

School screening points to a concern. An assessment explains it.
Report cards, teacher observations and school screenings can show that something is getting in the way of learning, but they can’t say why. A full assessment looks at how your child thinks, learns and pays attention, considers their development and history, and separates out things that can look alike, like a learning difficulty, attention, anxiety or a gap in instruction.

What the fee covers.
Testing takes several hours with your child, and much more work happens afterwards: scoring and interpreting the tests, reviewing questionnaires and school records, bringing it all together, and writing a detailed report with recommendations you can use at home and share with the school. The fee reflects that time, and your estimate is confirmed in writing before booking.

Fees and practical details

  • Estimated fee: $2,200–$3,200. This includes the parent intake, testing, questionnaires and records review, ADHD assessment where needed, the written report and feedback. Your estimate is confirmed before booking.
  • Deadlines: mention any school or accommodation deadlines in your inquiry, and Alana will let you know if the timeline can be met.
  • Benefits: check your coverage for assessments by a Registered Psychologist. Receipts are provided.
Alana Cotterall

Children & youth assessments
In-person
Registered Psychologist

Ask in your inquiry form with your child’s age and grade, and Alana will confirm whether the assessment is a good fit.

Keep it simple: they’ll do puzzles, questions and some reading, writing and math with breaks, and there’s no studying or passing. A good night’s sleep and breakfast help.

Not always. Alana can diagnose when the findings support it. Either way, the report explains your child’s learning profile and what may help.

Often, yes, depending on guardianship. Alana will confirm what’s needed before booking.

A school can suggest an assessment, but a parent or guardian makes the inquiry and gives consent.

Whenever you’re ready

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