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Psychometric Evaluation

The psychometric evaluations, which are performed in our unit to evaluate the mental developments of children can be collected under three main headings.

INTELLIGENCE TESTS

Stanford Binet Intelligence Test: It is used to assess the mental developments of children between the ages of 2 and 16. Test scores provide information on the speech, fine/gross motor development, attention, perception and memory processes of the child.

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R): It is used to evaluate the mental developments of children between the ages of 2 and 16. In the evaluation results, three intelligence points composing of verbal, performance and total are obtained. Verbal subscales aim to measure verbal attention, perception and memory processes, and performance subscales aim to measure visual attention, perception and memory processes.

DEVELOPMENT TESTS

Bayley Scales of Infant Development: It is used to evaluate the mental and physical developments of infants from 1-30 months of age. It is determined whether the mental, physical, speech and social developments of children are compliant with their age-levels, depending on the scores obtained through the mental and motor subscales.

Denver Developmental Screening Test: It is used to evaluate the developments of children between 2 months and 6 years of age. It includes four subsections: personal-social, fine motor, language, and gross motor.

NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION

It is a battery consisted of several tests sensitive to the functions of right and left hemispheres of brain. Detailed information are obtained through these tests on visual perception, perceptional organization, visual motor coordination, visual recognition and distinguishing skills which are considered as the right hemisphere functions and on immediately recalling, learning, memorizing the verbal information and storing it in the long-term memory, verbal attention and perception processes, which are considered as the functions of the left hemisphere,

For what purposes are the tests used?

  • To specify the children, whose mental, physical and language developments are behind their age-levels and to plan their special trainings

  • To regularly follow the positive/ negative effects of diseases, treatments or special trainings on the mental, physical and language developments of children

  • To predict the potential problems that may occur after the surgery, with preoperative evaluations

  • To follow the positive or negative developments that exists in patients in the long-term, with postoperative evaluations.

Considerations before psychometric assessment

Please pay attention for your child not to be sleepless and hungry while coming to psychometric assessment, which is requested by the physicians of Pediatric Neurology Unit. Please try not to book appointments for the days when particularly EEG and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests are performed. Because the medications given during these procedures for your child to stand still will affect the performance of your child negatively during the test. Please pay attention for your child not to have complaints such as high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, cough, etc., or procedures such as vaccination, lumber puncture (LP), biopsy on that day.

In Psychometric assessment room...

The psychometric assessment will take 15-60 MINUTES in accordance with the age of the child and with the features of the tests.

What is special training?

The purposes of special training are to meet the training requirements of children, whose mental, physical, social and speech developments are behind their age-levels, to make them to be able to maintain their lives on their own and to integrate them with society. Furthermore, it is provided for the students who need special training, to get education in normal schools, with their age-levels. The practice defined as "mainstreaming" has been attempted to be generalized.

How is health commission report for special training received?

  • Your child should have been examined in Hacettepe Pediatric Neurology Unit and evaluated in terms of psychometric assessment within the last six months 

  • The development definition report should have been completed by a psychologist.

You will submit your file to our secretariat after the assessment. Health Commission Report can be issued approximately in 1 month and the reports are valid for 1 year.