Consultation & Guidance When IQ Results Are Already Available

Sometimes a child has already been evaluated for intellectual ability, but the parents still feel they don’t know as much as they need to for guiding and making good choices for their child. When this is the case, I charge a file analysis fee based on my regular hourly rate. Once I know how much information will be sent to me and how long it is likely to take me to read and analyze it, I make a firm estimate of the eventual file analysis cost ahead of time. If it is decided to go ahead with a new assessment on the Stanford-Binet 5 with me, the file analysis fee is credited toward that expense.

Group ability tests and some screening tests are not sufficient for me to get a good sense of the child’s overall intellectual profile, and I usually recommend further individual testing. We need to discuss this ahead of time to make sure I will have enough information to be helpful to you.

The process: I email the parents the intake form, Developmental Milestones, and when they have completed it and mailed me copies of all previous testing, we set a date for our consultation. If the child is six years or older, I recommend that all family members take the personality assessments I can mail to your home for completion and you mail back for scoring and the printed feedback (8-15 pages depending on type). The fee is per person. The adult version is the Myers-Briggs Type Preferences®, so if the adults already know their types, there is a small fee for the same family and personally oriented information rather than the full fee. The children’s version is correlated with the Myers-Briggs Type Preferences® and is called the Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children®. Parents may help with the completion of this inventory so long as they keep “poker faces” throughout and do not react to any of their children’s answers. This is the part that sounds unnecessary to the family just starting out trying to figure out what this will all cost and how useful will it be. Please ask someone on my website under References and Testimonials so that you feel comfortable about this. It is surprisingly valuable.

The next step of the process is the follow-up consultation - your personalized "Crash Course" on giftedness or levels of intelligence. There is a separate hourly fee and the consultation generally takes 1.5 to 2.0 hours. Only the parents attend that, unless the child is a teenager, and I give you a rather intense education on intelligence, how your child fits on the intellectual continuum and compares in the real world, how schools are set up, what sorts of options are likely and how effective they are (or are not) and all sorts of other factors related to your child's future adjustment in school, at home, and in life after school. I'll give you a stack of articles relevant to your situation, and you may purchase books I have available from a variety of authors (if you want).

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