Services
- Comprehensive cognitive and educational assessments to identify an individual’s learning profile including strengths, challenges, and support needs.
- Identification of specific learning disabilities (dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia)
- Identification of gifted students and twice exceptional or ‘2e’ students who are gifted while also having learning, developmental, or neurodevelopmental challenges.
- Eligibility and recommendations for access arrangements / Special Assessment Conditions for NCEA, IB and Cambridge examinations to ensure fair access to assessment conditions and opportunities to reach learning potential.
- Consultation and guidance for parents, adolescents, adults, and families or whānau.
What Families are Saying
The experience felt collaborative and empowering
We had a very positive experience with Dr Aurelia Escoto-Kemp, who completed a dyslexia assessment for our 7-year-old daughter when she was struggling with reading and writing at school.
The assessment and accompanying report were extremely thorough and thoughtfully prepared, clearly outlining our daughter’s strengths, areas of difficulty, and practical next steps to take with her school. Dr Escoto-Kemp took the time to carefully explain what each part of the testing meant, ensuring we fully understood the results and recommendations.
Throughout the process, she was kind, patient, and reassuring, making both us as parents and our daughter feel comfortable and supported. The experience felt collaborative and empowering, and we left with clarity and confidence about how to best support our child moving forward. We are very grateful for her expertise and highly recommend her to other families navigating similar challenges.
Reading her report felt like reading something written by someone who genuinely knew our son
We sought Aurelia’s help to better understand our son’s learning profile, following challenges with support and understanding in the school setting, as well as a suspicion that he may be gifted. From the outset, Aurelia built strong rapport and trust with our son, allowing his strengths and personality to come through naturally.
Her assessment went far beyond test results. Through her perceptiveness and gentle, thoughtful conversations, Aurelia formed a truly comprehensive understanding of who he is as a learner. Reading her report felt like reading something written by someone who genuinely knew our son, despite having spent only two sessions with him. She captured both his brilliance and his challenges clearly and respectfully in a single, well-written and thorough report.
Having this report has given us clarity and confidence moving forward. It provides a clear, expert record of how our son’s brain works and what he needs to thrive, which we hope will support him to be better understood in future educational settings. Aurelia also took the time to carefully walk us through the report, ensuring we fully understood every aspect of his profile, including how his strengths and vulnerabilities interact, and what to be mindful of as he grows.
In just a few sessions, Aurelia has given us hope, understanding, and a practical path forward. We are so grateful for her insight, care, and professionalism, and would highly recommend her to any family seeking a thoughtful and comprehensive assessment of their child.
Helping us understand our child better
Damien really enjoyed his time with you. It takes someone very special to be able to work with him for that length of time. You’re a very special person and thank you very much for everything … for helping us understand him better, his strengths, challenges and learning needs and how these can be supported in school and at home.
A comprehensive and immensely helpful assessment
We found your insights very helpful. You gave us so much to think about. We found your comprehensive report and our discussions with you immensely helpful and we are very thankful for your support and guidance.
A positive experience
Jackson loved his assessment sessions with you. I don’t think he’s ever worked that long with any one person. Thank you so much for making sure the assessment was a positive experience for him and for helping us truly understand our child as a twice exceptional learner, for not just reporting his assessment data and results but for truly seeing him as his unique, gifted, quirky self.