Assessments can help you better understand your child and be a helpful tool for those that are working with your child to:

1. Identify your child's strengths and needs in specific skill sets, such as:
   • cognitive,
   • language,
   • literacy,
   • gross motor,
   • fine motor,
   • social,
   • emotional,
   • attending, adaptive and self help skills,
   • and overall physical health
2. Measure your child’s progress over time;
3. Align their progress to early learning standards in Australia;
4. Provide guidelines for planning and building individualised intervention programs;
5. Set goals that are individualized for each child;
6. Make appropriate referrals; and
7. Provide a basis to receive funding assistance for the child's therapies and treatment.

The assessments involve fun play activities and will take last between 1-2 hours. The fee will also include the staff to review any extra documentation and write a report. The parents/carers are provided with this written report after each assessment. These reports can also be given to other professionals involved in the child's care.

At Bridges for Learning, we provide assessments that are up-to-date and well recognised by community professionals. Some assessments are 'standardised', which means that they have specific measurements to determine progress and that the results can be compared with other's. Some assessments are ‘non-standardised’ – these are useful in assessing a child’s individual skills in some areas that either do not have a standardised assessment tool available, or in an area that is individually challenging to the child.

We can assess:

1. Specific areas of development, such as language. There are many specific assessments and to find out more about these, please enquire at Bridges for Learning.
2. A comprehensive picture of a child's development in several areas. This is called Developmental Assessments.