Services

Dr. Ayvazian performs assessments in all areas of neuropsychological and psychological functioning, including:

Dr. Ayvazian provides a comprehensive neuropsychological assessment that is tailored to the patient. Following the assessment process he provides detailed feedback of the test results and their practical implications. This is presented in a report that summarizes the test findings, gives diagnoses, makes treatment recommendations, offers guidance for family and caregivers, and provides referrals. With permission, results and recommendations can be shared with a patient’s treating physician, work or school personnel, or others who can benefit from the information to assist the patient.

Specifically, testing is used to assess cognitive strengths and weaknesses, detect the presence and degree of any cognitive deficits, and analyze any deficit pattern to suggest possible causation. Test findings are used to provide information about differential diagnosis, potential to benefit from certain medications, school or work restrictions, need for treatment such as cognitive training and or psychotherapy, and types of environmental modifications and/or behavior management.

The goal of a neuropsychological evaluation is to identify the areas in which a patient needs assistance now or in the future. This is a critical component to a complete and meaningful neuropsychological assessment. A complete neuropsychological assessment and feedback can lead to solving problems, overcoming weaknesses, and promoting a more effective and fulfilling lifestyle. It can result in a higher quality of life.

  • Academic achievement
  • Attention and concentration
  • Auditory processing
  • Emotional/psychological functioning
  • Executive functioning
  • General cognitive functioning
  • Information processing speed
  • Learning
  • Memory
  • Motor skills and coordination
  • Non verbal learning disorder
  • Sensory and perception
  • Speech and language functioning
  • Visuospatial functioning and perception

Dr. Ayvazian is trained and certified in the administration of the following neuropsychological tests:

This includes reading comprehension, written expression, and math concepts and applications

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Expressive Vocabulary Test
  • Nelson-Deny Test of Reading
  • Phonological Awareness Test
  • Process Assessment of the Learner (PAL)
  • Process Assessment of the Learner (PAL) Tutorial
  • Scholastic Abilities Test for Adults (SATA)
  • Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE)
  • Wechsler Test of Adult Reading (WTAR)
  • Weschler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-III)
  • Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT)
  • Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement
  • Expressive Vocabulary Test
  • Nelson-Deny Test of Reading
  • Phonological Awareness Test
  • Process Assessment of the Learner (PAL)
  • Process Assessment of the Learner (PAL) tutorial
  • Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE)
  • Weschler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-III)
  • Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) III
  • Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement III

Attention and Concentration

This includes ability to sustain attention and remain focused on a task. It also is the ability to block out external stimuli and to switch to new tasks

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Clock Drawing
  • IVA
  • Stroop
  • Trails A and B
  • WCST
  • Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC)
  • Clock Drawing
  • IVA
  • Stroop
  • Trails A and B
  • WCST

Auditory Processing

This refers to a variety of disorders that affect the way the brain processes auditory information. Individuals with this disorder usually have normal structure and function of their outer, middle, and inner ear (peripheral hearing). However, they cannot process the information they hear in the same way others do.

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Test of Auditory Processing Skills for Adults
  • Scan-C Test for Auditory Processing in Children
  • Scan-A Test for Auditory Processing in Adults

Executive functions

This includes ability to inhibition, paying attention, shifting from one task to another, correcting errors, initiation, working memory, learning from one’s mistakes, planning and organizing, monitoring one’s performance, and emotional control.

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Animals
  • Auditory Consonant Trigrams
  • Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive
  • Control (BRIEF)
  • Clock Drawing
  • COWA
  • Dellis-Kaplan (D-KEFS)
  • Rey-O
  • Ruff Figural Fluency Test
  • Stroop
  • Tasks of Executive Control (TEC)
  • Tower of London
  • Trails A and B
  • WCST
  • Auditory Consonant Trigams Test
  • Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC)
  • Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF)
  • Clock Drawing
  • Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWA)
  • Dellis Kaplan (D-KEFS)
  • Rey-O
  • Ruff Figural Fluency Test
  • Stroop
  • Tasks of Executive Control (TEC)
  • Tower of London Test
  • Trails A and B
  • WCST
  • WISC Working Memory Subtests
  • Working Memory Index on Weschler

General Cognitive Functioning

This includes ability to perform mental operations, problem solving, and applying information. It also assesses the ability to think abstractly, to organize information, to learn from trial and error, and to think abstractly.

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI)
  • Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
  • Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-II (WIAT-II)
  • Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI)
  • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
  • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Infants (WPPSI)

Information Processing Speed

This refers to the speed in which one can take in, make sense of, and organize raw sensory input raw sensory input.

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Digit Symbol Coding
  • Processing Speed Index on Weschler Tests
  • Stroop
  • Weschler Subtests
  • Cancellation WISC
  • RAN
  • Stroop
  • Symbol Search WPPSI and WISC
  • Weschler Test (Digit Symbol Coding)

Memory and Learning

Learning refers to the ability to acquire knowledge, behaviors, and skills. This includes the ability to encode and recall verbal and non-verbal data and to profit from exposure to tasks. Memory refers to the ability to store, retain, and recall information and experiences. It is in the auditory and visual realms.

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Auditory Consonant Trigram Test
  • California Verbal Learning Test-II (CVLT-II)
  • Memory for Design
  • Rey-O
  • Wechsler Memory Scale
  • Cancellation WISC
  • Auditory Consonant Trigram Test
  • California Verbal Learning Test-II (CVLT-II)
  • Children’s Memory Scale (CMS)
  • Memory for Design Test
  • Rey-O

Motor and coordination

This refers to speed, strength, and ability in the fine and gross realms. It involves spatial direction and force that result in intended actions

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Finger Tapping Test
  • Grooved Pegboard
  • Trails A and B
  • Finger Tapping Test
  • Grooved Pegboard
  • Trails A and B

Sensory and perception

This involves perceiving and making sense of visual, auditory, and tactile information and to use that information in a meaningful way.

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Clock Drawing
  • Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP-2)
  • Digit Symbol Coding
  • Judgment of Line Orientation
  • Rey-O
  • Sensory Fields Test
  • Clock Drawing
  • Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP-2)
  • Digit Symbol Coding
  • Judgment of Line Orientation
  • Rey-O
  • Sensory Fields Test

Speech and language

This involves articulation, word finding and naming, fluency, grammar, phonemic processing, and comprehension

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Boston Naming Test
  • Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-4)
  • COWA
  • Expressive Vocabulary Test
  • Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
  • RAN
  • Test of Reading Comprehension (TORC-4)
  • Weschler Subtests
  • WIAT III
  • Boston Naming Test
  • COWA
  • Expressive Vocabulary Test
  • Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
  • RAN (Rapid Automized Naming Test)
  • Test of Reading Comprehension-4th Edition (TORC-4)
  • WPPSI and WISC Subtests
  • Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-II (WIAT-I)
  • WIAT III
  • WRAT

Visuospatial processing and perception

This refers to the ability to process and interpret visual information about where objects are in space. It involves accurately reaching for objects in one’s visual field and to shift one’s gaze to different points in space.

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Adult Tests

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Children's Tests

  • Bender Gestalt
  • Block Design WISC/WAIS
  • Clock Drawing
  • Development Test of Visual Perception (DTVP-2)
  • Digit Symbol Coding
  • Hooper Visual Organization Test
  • Judgment of Line Orientation
  • Rey-O
  • Trails A and B
  • WRAVMA
  • Bender-Gestalt
  • Block Design
  • Clock Drawing
  • Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP-2)
  • Digit Symbol Coding
  • Hooper Visual Integration Test
  • Judgment of Line Orientation
  • Rey-O
  • Trails A and B
  • Wide Range Assessment of Visual-Motor Ability (WRAVMA)