Educational, School & EHCP Support
Understanding a child's needs and ensuring they receive the right support at school can feel complex and overwhelming. We provide psychological assessment and consultation to help families and schools develop a clearer understanding of a child's strengths, needs and barriers to learning — and, importantly, what can be done to support them.
Our work can be particularly helpful where there are concerns around autism, ADHD, neurodivergence, emotional wellbeing, learning, behaviour, communication or difficulties accessing education.
Supporting families
We work with parents and carers to understand their child's presentation within the context of home, school and their wider development.
An assessment can help to:
- Develop a clearer understanding of your child's strengths and areas of difficulty
- Consider how neurodevelopmental differences may be affecting learning and everyday life
- Identify barriers to accessing education
- Provide practical, individualised recommendations for home and school
- Help parents communicate their child's needs more effectively with education professionals
- Provide professional evidence to support discussions around additional educational provision
Our aim is not simply to identify difficulties, but to understand what your child needs in order to thrive.
Working with schools
We can provide consultation and assessment to help schools better understand and respond to individual pupils' needs.
This may include reviewing existing information, considering assessment findings and working collaboratively with school staff to develop practical recommendations.
Recommendations may address areas such as:
- Classroom environment and sensory needs
- Communication and interaction
- Attention, executive functioning and organisation
- Emotional regulation and anxiety
- Social communication
- Transitions and changes in routine
- Behaviour and understanding the function of behaviour
- Access to learning and reasonable adjustments
- Strategies to support independence
- Appropriate pastoral and educational support
Recommendations are designed to be realistic, evidence-informed and specific to the individual child, rather than relying on generic lists of strategies.
EHCP assessment and advice
For families navigating the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) process, we can provide psychological assessment and professional recommendations to help build a clearer picture of a child's needs.
This may be particularly valuable when a child is struggling to access education despite existing support, when their needs are complex, or when parents are seeking greater clarity about the level and type of provision required.
We can help consider:
What are the child's needs?
Understanding the child's cognitive, emotional, social, communication, sensory and educational profile.
How do these needs affect education?
Identifying the impact of their difficulties on learning, participation, relationships, attendance, independence and wellbeing.
What support is likely to help?
Developing clear, individualised recommendations around the provision and adjustments that may help the child access and engage with education.
Where appropriate, psychological recommendations can contribute to the evidence considered as part of the EHCP process.
A collaborative approach
We believe the most useful assessments are those that translate psychological understanding into practical recommendations that can actually be implemented.
We therefore aim to work collaboratively with parents, schools and other professionals, bringing together information from different settings to develop a holistic understanding of the child.
The focus is always on the individual child: their strengths, their needs and the environment and support they require to reach their potential.
Who might benefit from this service?
This service may be appropriate for children and young people who:
- Are experiencing persistent difficulties at school
- Are struggling despite existing SEN support
- Have or may have autism or ADHD
- Experience significant anxiety, emotional regulation or social communication difficulties
- Have sensory or executive functioning needs
- Are experiencing school avoidance or difficulty attending
- Require more individualised educational provision
- Are being considered for an EHCP
- Already have an EHCP but their needs or circumstances have changed
- Would benefit from a clearer psychological understanding of their educational needs
Getting started
If you are unsure what type of assessment or support would be most appropriate, we can help you consider the options.
The starting point is understanding what is happening for your child, what has already been tried and what you are hoping to achieve. From there, we can advise on the most appropriate assessment or consultation and how this may help inform next steps with school or the EHCP process.