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Dr. Mike Online Bilingual Psychological Services for Children

Dr. Mike Mehrvarz, Ph.D.

Dr. Mike Online Bilingual Psycho-educational Assessment and Psychological Treatment for Children age 0-1.

Is your child often moody? Defies parents or teachers? Often has school problem? Often angry? Has problems with attention, concentration and or hyperactivity? Has problems with Reading and Writing? Sometimes writes or reads backwards? Has no friend? Has low self-confidence? Diagnosed with Autism or Asperger? Diagnosed with ADD or ADHD? Diagnosed with Dyslexia? Does not like to study? Does not like to go to school? Often wants to play video games? Often gets in trouble at school?

With the right diagnosis and treatment these children can reach their full potentials and become successful in their lives and education.

The symptoms mentioned below may require child to receive psycho-educational assessment, training, treatment or rehabilitation

Children may have difficulties with learning, emotion and or behavior. Psychological consultation will help all the above difficulties. If these problems are not resolved at early age, it may lead to development of poor self-confidence, anxiety and chronic depression at older age.

At the comfort of your home, your child can get assessed and treated online or offline for his or her emotional, behavior or learning difficulties.

Children Emotional and Learning difficulties

Since children cannot express their emotions same as adults, instead they tend to show different physical and emotional signs. These signs include bed-wetting, chewing nail, throw temper tantrum, fearful, aggressive, withdrawn, avoid eating, more clinging to parents, having nightmares or develop sleep difficulties. These signs are often related to child’s anxiety in which parents need to consult with psychologist to assess the child as soon as possible. These symptoms may also affect children attention, concentration and consequently their education.

ADD and ADHD

Due to different neurological reasons, children age 4 or younger may show problems with attention, concentration, hyperactivity and impulsivity. These problems will also may lead to child having learning problem, poor self-confidence, anxiety, depression and more. Most children with these disorders are quite smart, but they cannot use their brainpower sufficiently due to poor attention, concentration and poor memory.

These children will need help as early as possible to overcome their difficulties. With comprehensive online or offline psycho-educational assessment, latest advanced treatment and training, these children’s learning ability can improve and can become successful in their education. 

yslexia

Majority of these children may have an average to high IQ, and some might even be gifted. However, they have problems with reading, poor spelling, phonics and various learning difficulties. These problems can be detected as early as age 4 to 5 when children start learning simple words or reading and writing. 

Psycho-educational assessment, treatment and multisensory phonic based reading & writing tutoring which address executive function, memory, reading, writing and math will help these children overcome their learning difficulties. If children do not receive help soon, it will affect their education and can lead to developing emotional problems including poor self-confidence, anxiety and depression. 

Learning Disability

Children developmental delay may lead to different learning disabilities. Learning Disability is not always related to Dyslexia. These children require comprehensive psycho-educational assessment, treatment, and also receive multi-sensory phonic based tutoring which help many factors of learning including executive function, memory, critical thinking, reading, writing and math in order to become a successful learner.

Autism and Asperger

Parents can notice different signs in their children as early as age 2. These signs may include, speech delay, child not smiling back, poor eye contact, child does not like to be hold, does not use gesture to communicate with others, does not respond to care givers, does not use single words at 16 months of age, often talk to self and many other signs.

If these children undergo developmental and psycho-educational assessment as early as possible and start comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation, the result will be far more successful. Autism has a broad range; Asperger is the high functioning type of Autism.

Tourette syndrome

Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder which require various medical tests and also may require taking medicine after being assessed by specialist physician. Psychological treatment along the above treatments can make a big difference in reducing child’s symptoms. As symptoms improve, there is a big chance that physician may lower the medicine dosage. The child symptoms can increase if child suffers from anxiety, stress, depression, and being affected by poor parenting and or parent’s marital conflicts. Psychological treatment can treat all the above and may help the child symptoms becomes minimal. However, each case is different and requires psychological testing as well to determine the underling psychological cause.  

Why my child needs Psycho-educational Assessment?

Not every child is born with the same abilities. Children who face developmental difficulties during early age may develop learning difficulties, inattention, hyperactivity as well as problems with behavior, emotion, problem solving, logic, social skills and more. Psychological tests are used to find the underlining reasons for children difficulties in learning or emotional difficulties and use the results to form special trainings, treatment and rehab to help them achieve their full potentials.

Results of these tests will be a road map for teachers to help these children by using special teaching methods. These tests use paper and pencil. Depending on each child abilities, these tests might take from 2 to 3 hours to complete. These tests include child developmental history, testing child educational level, attention, concentration, personality, learning ability, cognitive function, memory and more.

All information including these tests report is strictly confidential and parents only can share with teachers or others if they choose to.

Online Bilingual Psycho-educational Assessment for Children age 0-18

Each assessment is customized according to child’s difficulties. These tests are conducted to understand various reasons behind children problems including, child hate or refuse to do homework, having learning difficulties, often hyper, poor attention or concentration, has difficulties with reading and writing, behavior problems, problem making friends, poor eye contact, poor social skills, doesn’t like to go to school and more. The test results will help adjusting teaching method at school to fit children specific learning or other issues.

According to each child’s different needs for testing, some part of the assessment may be administered at the clinic where Dr. Mike practice. In such case Dr. Mike will discuss with parents the convenient time for child to complete the remaining part of the assessment.

Contact Dr. Mike today to help your child become a happier and good Learner at the comfort of your own home!

Dr. Mike Mehrvarz, Ph.D., bilingual Child & Adult Psychologist, licensed in China, uses latest technology and comprehensive methods to assess different aspects of children problems. He has extensive training and experience in assessment and treatment of children with Dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, Autism, Learning Disability and emotional problems.