A Comprehensive Diagnostic Evaluation (CDE) is the first step toward understanding your child’s developmental, emotional, and behavioral needs. It provides a complete picture of how your child learns, communicates, manages emotions, and interacts with others.
During this process, we will look beyond surface behaviors to uncover the underlying factors that may be contributing to challenges at home or school. Whether you’re seeking answers about attention, social development, learning, or emotional regulation, the CDE helps bring clarity and direction to your child’s care.
A Thoughtful, Evidence-Based Process
My CDE process is thorough, individualized, and evidence-based. It includes developmental history, standardized assessments, behavioral observations, and input from parents, teachers, or therapists. I evaluate cognitive, emotional, and social functioning, while also considering sleep, nutrition, environment, and family dynamics.
By understanding how all these pieces fit together, we can create an actionable plan tailored to your child’s unique strengths and needs as a team.
This helps families, schools, and care teams work together to support progress and well-being in meaningful, practical ways.
Every child deserves to be understood deeply and supported fully—and my Comprehensive Diagnostic Evaluation is designed to make that understanding possible.
Some of the assessment tools used during these evaluations include:
KBIT-2 Revised (Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, Second Edition -Revised)
TONI-4 (Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, Fourth Edition)
KTEA-3 (Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Third Edition)
PPVT-5 (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fifth Edition)
EVT-3 (Expressive Vocabulary Test, Third Edition)
PEP-3 (Psychoeducational Profile, Third Edition)
ADOS-2 (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition)
CARS-2 (Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition)
GORT-5 (Gray Oral Reading Tests, Fifth Edition)
ChAMP (Childhood Attention and Memory Profile)
CPT-3 (Conners Continuous Performance Test)
Among many others. Request an appointment to learn more.
