All we may know about cognitive assessment
Cognitive Assessment Sydney (or intelligence testing) is used to determine an individual’s general thinking and reasoning abilities, also known as intellectual functioning or IQ. Intelligence testing can assess various domains of our child’s cognitive capacity. An assessment and therapy clinic may test for the following: 1. Verbal comprehension: understanding verbal information, thinking in words and expressing thoughts in words 2. Perceptual reasoning: ability to organize and reason with visual information, and to solve visual problems 3. Working memory: ability to retain and manipulate verbal information 4. Processing speed: ability to scan, process and identify information accurately. Usually, the average score for IQ and various domains is between 90 and 109. Higher scores represent higher cognitive functioning and lower scores represent poorer cognitive functioning. However, when the scores between domains vary greatly, individual domain scores may provide a more accurate reflecti...