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 CDL's Clinical ServicesWelcome to the Center for Development and Learning's Clinical Services page! The Center for Development and Learning (CDL) believes that all children want to learn and are capable of learning. It is our goal to find the most effective and successful ways to make learning happen. Are you concerned that your child may have a learning disorder? Do you want to know how to best enhance your child's learning? Our resources and experts can help answer your questions. Since 1992, CDL's clinic has helped hundreds of children and young adult students identify their unique learning profiles, including both strengths and weaknesses, and provided them with specific management strategies that capitalize on their strengths and compensate for any weaknesses. If you are interested in having your child's learning profile evaluated by one of our psychologists, or interested in finding out more about our clinical services, click here. CDL's clinical services are provided by licensed psychologists who specialize in assessing and treating children, adolescents and young adults who are struggling with learning or in school. They provide neurodevelopmental evaluations of learning, academic skills, and social, emotional and behavioral functioning. They specifically address the neuropsychological processes that include attention, language, memory, handwriting skills, spatial and sequential organization and higher order thinking skills, such as verbal and nonverbal reasoning. Our evaluations are tailored to address parents' and student's concerns and to answer important questions that parents and students may have. These evaluations are often referred to as psychoeducational evaluations because they address the psychological processes relevant to education and learning. A CDL evaluation serves as a roadmap for helping our clients achieve school success. Our evaluations not only provide an accurate diagnosis but also give descriptive information about the areas of functioning listed above and seek to identify the underlying causes of the challenges students may have. For example, if a student is having difficulty with reading comprehension, the psychologist will conduct testing and gather additional information (e.g., student, parent and teacher questionnaires and rating scales) to determine if the comprehension problem is because the student is unable to decode the words when reading, displays poor reading fluency, lacks understanding of vocabulary or has deficits in attention and/or memory that contribute to poor comprehension. It is the comprehensiveness of the evaluations, the description of both strengths and weaknesses, the focus on the underlying causes of problems, and the specific recommendations that are provided to the student, parent and teacher that make our evaluations truly different. |
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