Cognitive functioning evaluations in Milan are given for children and adolescents using standardized tests for the diagnosis of the cognitive deficits.
Cognitive Functions assessment in Milan. Cognition involves mental processes of knowing, thinking, remembering, perceiving, awareness, learning, judging, and understanding of ideas. Skills specifically assessed include levels of attention, short-term visual memory, short-term linguistic memory, encoding and decoding of information, incidental and intentional learning, logical and mathematical reasoning, problem solving, decision-making, organization, and planning.
A cognitive assessment in Milan will give a profile of an individual’s strengths and difficulties in relation to their learning, as it can provide a snapshot of how they are doing at that time in a controlled way.
Cognitive abilities tend to remain stable throughout an individual’s childhood and adult life meaning that it is possible to use it as a predictor of an individual’s academic potential.
Cognitive assessments in Milan bring many benefits, including:
- Providing a learning profile, including strengths and difficulties
- Identifying a learning need
- Being able to compare to a standardised sample
- Helping to identify able and talented
- Guiding personalised learning
- Providing evidence to support a specific application
- Supporting access arrangements
- Being evidence-based
- Being a robust and comprehensive assessment
- Helping to distinguish between special educational needs and English as an additional language
Following a cognitive assessment there will be some recommendations for supporting the individual’s learning environment.