Services Offered by the Gifted Resource Center of New England
Assessment
Assessment services for children ages 6 to 16 include:
- Intellectual Assessment. This includes testing level of intellect, areas of cognitive strength and weakness, and whether children qualify for possible membership in Mensa, Davidson Young Scholars, PG Retreat and other groups supportive of gifted children.
- Achievement Testing. This includes testing levels of educational attainment in reading, math, spelling, and written expression. Such testing can pinpoint areas of advancement, areas of weakness, and possible learning disabilities.
- Screening for Twice-Exceptionality. This includes using parent, teacher, and self-report measures as well as observations during interactions with your child to determine the possibility to ADHD, ASD, anxiety, or depression. A full history of behavioral, social, emotional levels, as well special interests and achievements, is also gathered.
Consultation
Consultation services include:
- Review of past evaluations to help parents interpret findings, determine what questions the previous evaluation raised that were not answered and to determine ways to answer those questions to most benefit the gifted child.
- Interviews of young children and parents to determine enrichment, possible resources for advancement to look for, and discussion of signs of possible giftedness and/or disability, in children under age six.
- How to approach a school to ask for acceleration and enrichment for children who are advanced beyond grade level curriculum.
- Issues of homeschooling.
- Issues of giftedness. Up to 8 sessions around particular issues related to giftedness.
General Information
All services, at this time, are conducted virtually using secure HIPAA compliant platforms.
Due to licensing laws, in order for assessment or consultation services to be delivered, you are required to be physically present in RI, or MA where I am licensed, or in a PSYPACT participating state. (where I hold a qualifying credential). Currently 43 states and DC are members. To determine if your state participates, go to www.psypact.gov.
Prior to the time of service, forms will be emailed using a secure email and may be returned via that same email. Once forms are received, an appointment will be made. If the appointment is not kept, a $50 fee will be charged.
For assessment and consultation appointments additional forms will be sent either by secure email or via US mail (depending on the forms), which will need to be returned.
Expected costs will be determined for the first appointment and will be estimated after that appointment for the duration of service. Fees are payable at the time of service via credit card, including for the initial visit.
For assessment and consultation services, health insurance will not cover the costs. This is due to the requirement for medical necessity, preauthorization, and a medical diagnosis.
I currently do not participate in any insurance companies as a provider. Thus, payment for services is required at the time of service. You can be provided with a superbill to submit to your insurance if you have out of network benefits. They may cover partial payment of the costs of twice exceptional screenings, provided there is a resulting medical ICD-10 diagnosis.
Due to HIPAA laws regarding confidentiality of health care information, please do not send any unsolicited information about your child via the general email. The general email is not encrypted and is at risk for being hacked. If you wish to inquire about services, please contact the GRCNE via the landline phone number (401-421-3426) or request, via the general email, to send you a link for the secure email.
Notification of Privacy Risk
The above listed email is a general email and thus can be susceptible to security risks. As a result, please do not send any confidential material on this email link. Instead, contact me either by phone or via the email to request a secure email link which I will send to you. If you choose to send information through this unsecured email link, please be aware that should a breech occur, I am not responsible for consequences.