Your child’s teacher has said something, or you’ve seen it yourself at the homework table. Hours of effort that never turn into results. A kid who was full of ideas a few years ago and now calls themselves the slow one. A Sunday-evening dread about school that’s becoming a family routine.
Educational testing, often called a learning assessment, is one way to find out what’s actually going on. It combines intelligence testing with achievement testing, and asks a plain set of questions: how does this child learn, where does learning get hard, and what support would actually help.
It’s different from psychological testing, which is about identifying mental health disorders. Where ADHD is part of the picture, ADHD testing overlaps with educational testing for children, and the two can be arranged together.
Most families who come for this have children at international schools, and they usually come around a decision. Whether to ask an international school for learning support. Whether accommodations would help. Whether the placement is the right fit. An assessment gives you something concrete to bring to those conversations, instead of a feeling that something is off.
What an assessment is for
It looks at how your child takes in and works with information, and where effort and results don’t match. Sometimes that points to a specific difficulty, something with a name. Sometimes there isn’t one, and the mismatch is about teaching style, language, or something happening outside the classroom. Either answer is useful.
Whatever comes out of it is written up, and it belongs to you. You decide what, if anything, goes to the school.
What happens when you get in touch
You call or send a message. You can describe what you’ve noticed and ask what testing would involve for your child before anything is booked. If you’re not sure an assessment is the right step, say so: a lot of these first conversations are about whether testing is needed at all.
A first message commits you to nothing. Plenty of parents get in touch, ask their questions, and take time to think before deciding anything.
The practice is led by Dr. Eric K. Mason, an American psychotherapist licensed in the United States, who has worked with families in Bangkok for over a decade.
Privacy, plainly stated
What you tell us stays with us.
What you share is protected under the same professional confidentiality standards that govern licensed psychologists and counsellors. We don’t confirm to anyone, including family or employers, that you’re a client here.
Like any licensed practitioner, there are narrow, legally defined situations (such as imminent risk of serious harm) where confidentiality has limits. We’ll explain exactly what those are before your first session.
If you’d rather not share your full name at first, that’s fine, tell us what to call you and we’ll go from there. Read more about confidentiality
Get in touch
Reach out, at your own pace.
A message here doesn’t commit you to anything. Ask a question, describe what’s going on, or just say hello, we’ll take it from there.
Your message is treated as confidential. Sessions take place in a quiet, discreet office building, or online.