Assessment that’s actually useful to somebody
A good report changes something. It gets funding approved, gets a teacher to try a different seat, or finally gives a family the language for something they’ve noticed for years. A bad one sits in a drawer full of percentiles nobody can use.
We write the first kind.
What we assess
- Functional capacity — how your child manages the actual demands of their day, for NDIS planning and reviews
- Developmental skills — fine and gross motor, self-care, play, and daily living
- Sensory processing — how your child takes in and responds to sensory information
- School readiness — the skills a classroom will ask for, and where support would help
- Handwriting and school participation — for children already at school
- Assistive technology and equipment — what would help, with the evidence to fund it
How an assessment runs
Before we start, we talk about what the report needs to achieve and who’s going to read it. An NDIS planner, a school, and a paediatrician all need different things.
The assessment itself usually takes one to three sessions, depending on scope. It combines standardised assessment tools, structured observation, and — always — conversation with you. Where it’s useful and you consent, we’ll also gather input from kinder or school.
Your report arrives within an agreed timeframe, and we go through it together before it goes anywhere. If something doesn’t match your experience of your child, we want to know before it’s finalised, not after.
How we write
Strengths-based, in plain English, at a reading level anyone in the room can manage. We describe what your child is building and what helps them, rather than cataloguing deficits. Recommendations are specific and costed where relevant, so a planner can approve them without a second report.
Your child is likely to read this document one day. We write it accordingly.
Funding
Assessment is claimable under self-managed and plan-managed NDIS plans — we are not an NDIS-registered provider, so agency-managed funding cannot be used with us. It may also attract a Medicare rebate with a GP referral under a GP chronic condition management plan (GPCCMP). Private and private health options are available too — see Fees & Funding for current rates.