Jennifer Emberger is a Licensed Educational Psychologist (License #3769) skilled in psychological and educational assessments designed to “Boost” your confidence as a parent. Her comprehensive assessment will identify your student’s learning and academic strengths and weaknesses as well as provide specific recommendations on how to best support the academic growth and school success of your child. An assessment can be used to help advance your student in a highly competitive environment by identifying the “sweet spot” between high expectations and accessing a person’s innate strengths and abilities.
About Jennifer
Jennifer has extensive experience conducting comprehensive, legally defensible assessments. She maintains a master of science in public health, master of arts in education (specialization in school psychology), and a pupil personnel services credential to work in schools. She is currently an educational psychologist in the San Dieguito Union High School District. She has also worked as an educational psychologist in the Poway Unified and San Diego Unified school districts. Jennifer is experienced with working students ages 4 through 22 as well as adults. She is an expert in special education supports and services within public schools and has performed numerous evaluations for students attending private and nonpublic schools. Her assessments can also inform 504 accommodation requests in public and private schools for K-12 students as well as for college board exams and college/university classes. Testing is available for preschool students as well. Her specialties include
- Cognitive and Academic Patterns of Strengths and Weaknesses
- Private school admissions
- Learning Disability Identification
- Intellectual Disability Identification
- Gifted and Talented Assessment
- Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and Dyscalculia Assessment
- ADHD Assessment (using FDA approved T.O.V.A direct measure and behavior data)
- Behavior Assessment
A comprehensive assessment can help students with suspected or known learning difficulties as well as students that are highly capable learners. All assessments are thorough, comprehensive, and tailored to the type of information you are seeking. Although psycho-educational assessments are used within school systems to qualify a student for special education, they can also be used to understand an individual learning ability and optimize academic and social success. This information is incredibly helpful in decreasing frustration and increasing performance. The goal of the assessment is to help you strategize your student’s education and enrichment!
Cognitive Assessment
Boost Counseling and Assessment offers cognitive (IQ) testing to assess your child’s overall intellectual functioning. This can be helpful in identifying your child’s strengths and weaknesses and overall learning profile. An assessment may also include processing assessment in the areas of memory, auditory processing, visual processing, and/or visual motor integration.
Academic Assessment
If your child is having academic difficulties at school and concerns have been raised around a possible learning disorder, we are able to offer thorough academic achievement assessments in the areas of reading, math, writing, spelling, listening comprehension, and oral language. Through comprehensive and detailed academic assessment, specific skill deficits in the areas of reading, writing, and/or math can be identified to help inform supports and interventions for school, tutors, or enrichment. The combination of cognitive and academic assessment can be used to identify dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia as well as other potential learning disorders.
Gifted Assessment
Gifted assessment includes intelligence testing through an IQ test that is typically administered in one session. However, gifted individuals can often experience a range of skill levels in different areas and are often faced with additional challenges such as anxiety, perfectionism, depression, and feeling different from peers. In addition, it is not uncommon for gifted individuals to experience under achievement and/or specific learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, in contrast to having extraordinary skills in their area(s) of giftedness. A comprehensive assessment may be considered to gain a specific understanding of the individual’s ability profile to better understand a gifted individuals areas of strengths as well as areas requiring additional support.
Behavior Assessment
A behavior assessment can be helpful in identifying your child’s strengths and weaknesses and overall behavior and/or personality profile. The behavior assessment evaluates symptoms of potential mental health conditions such as depression and/or anxiety; behavior disorders such as conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder; as well as ADHD, autism, and executive functioning disorders. Personality testing is available as well to help determine individual preferences for interactions as well as acquiring or communicating knowledge.
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