Services Offered
Developmental Assessment/ Comprehensive Autism Evaluation
Developmental assessments can help to identify cognitive and adaptive deficits (e.g., Intellectual Disabilities), as well as deficits in social-emotional development (e.g., Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), including High Functioning Autism formerly known as Asperger’s syndrome) that impair the functioning of children and adults across the domains of home, school, work, and social/community environments.
Developmental assessments are usually done because of a concern that the individual may have a developmental delay or disorder. The assessments include measures of cognitive ability, adaptive skills, social/emotional and behavioral functioning. By evaluating and documenting areas of functioning or disability, these assessments are useful both in the development of intervention plans and treatment recommendations, and in establishing eligibility for services, accommodations, and benefits.
Dr. Brandie Bartlett is trained in the use of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, 2nd edition (ADOS-2), a semi-structured, standardized assessment of communication, social interaction, play, and restricted and repetitive behaviors, for use with children as young as age 2, as well as adults. By observing and coding these behaviors, we obtain information that informs diagnosis, intervention, treatment planning, and educational placement. The ADOS-2 represents the state-of-the-art evaluation procedure for the assessment of autism across the lifespan.
Dr. Bartlett evaluates individuals as young as age 2 for questions related to possible Autism, and as young as age 3 for questions of cognitive ability and adaptive functioning.
Forensic Evaluation
Dr. Bartlett has diverse expertise and experience assisting attorneys and Courts with evaluations in legal matters. Dr. Bartlett relies on multiple sources of information, such as tests of personality and behavior, tests of ability or intelligence, clinical and collateral interviews, available records/data sets, and extensive research, in order to provide reports and testimony that are thorough, accurate, and useful. Dr. Bartlett offers an variety of forensic evaluation services:
Criminal MattersCompetency to Stand Trial
Mental State at the Time of the Offense (Insanity)
Petition for Sentence Reduction or Compassionate Release
Mitigation
Pre-sentencing evaluations
Violence Risk Assessment
Civil and Family LawPsychological Injury, Damages, and Causation
Parental fitness
Mental health evaluation in child custody matters
Guardianship
Employment and Administrative MattersWorkers Compensation
Fitness for Duty
Pre-employment Psychological Evaluations
Immigration MattersExtreme & exceptional hardship
Political Asylum
Psychological and Neuropsychological Testing
Psychological and neuropsychological testing and evaluation consists of a clinical interview and a series of tests that help determine the cause of psychological and cognitive symptoms and disorders, to determine the correct diagnosis and follow up with the appropriate course of treatment.
This testing is helpful in diagnosing a variety of issues, including:
Depression and other mood disorders
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Panic Disorder, and other anxiety disorders
Cognitive and memory impairments
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
We also provide psychological evaluation services to facilitate adoptions, employment, military enlistment, and weight-loss surgery.
Psychoeducational Testing
Psychoeducational evaluation examines the possibility of specific learning disabilities (e.g., in reading, writing, and/or math), cognitive development, and executive functioning. Educational evaluations can also be useful in determine academic giftedness.
Learning disabilities are neurologically-based processing problems that can undermine academic and occupational performance. These processing problems can interfere with learning basic skills such as reading, writing and/or math. They can also interfere with higher level skills such as organization, time planning, abstract reasoning, long or short term memory and attention. Psychoeducational testing can help individuals understand the reasons that school or the workplace have been a challenge. By evaluating and documenting particular areas of functioning or disability for school or employment settings, psycho-educational testing is useful in both in the development of intervention plans, and in establishing eligibility for services, accommodations, and benefits. Psychoeducational testing may include measures of cognitive ability and attention/concentration, adaptive functioning, academic achievement, and behavioral/emotional functioning. Psychoeducational testing can be useful in identifying the following:
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Specific Learning Disorders in Reading, Math, and Written Expression
Information processing deficits
Behavior problems
Giftedness for advanced academic admissions and placement
Dr. Bartlett also provides Independent Educational Evaluations (IEE), when requested by the child’s school district.