Testing and Assessments

Understanding your child's strengths and challenges, is the first step in understanding how to support their journey.

At Baywood Learning Center we feel it is vitally important that parents of gifted children have access to professional psychologists and clinicians who understand the needs and behaviors of gifted children. It is an unfortunate fact that many gifted children are misdiagnosed with ADD, ADHD and non-existent learning disabilities caused by inappropriate environmental factors. Only an experienced professional, with a working knowledge of gifted children, is qualified to discern the difference between a specific pathology and certain behaviors in gifted children that are caused by an inappropriate learning environment. The BLC Testing Clinic is designed to help you get the most qualified and experienced clinicians for your children. We will continue to build this resource as we grow.

Baywood Learning Center Testing Clinics

Starting this Summer of 2007, Baywood Learning Center will be offering a variety of testing and assessment options at our facility. If you are interested in IQ testing, Educational Assessments, or diagnosis for learning disabilities, Baywood Learning Center will be providing a variety of options from practitioners who are experienced with gifted children. These testing clinics are made available as a service to any parent who may benefit from them, regardless of whether or not their child will be a student at Baywood Learning Center.

QA Qualitative Assessment

Anne Beneventi is a Master Practitioner of the Annemarie Roeper Method of Qualitative Assessment (QA). QA uses a unique approach to evaluating for giftedness, by assessing the emotional as well as intellectual characteristics to determine giftedness. Central to this process is understanding the child's inner world, based on insights from parents and schools, together with the psychological experience and expertise of the certified QA practitioner. While this assessment does not provide an IQ number, it offers a more holistic approach toward planning, designing, and providing for education programs that nourish the inner agenda, interests, emotional development and unique needs of the child.

To schedule a QA with Anne Beneventi please call 510 672-0418.

To be contacted about testing please provide the following information: (This information will be used solely to help connect you with the appropriate testing professional for your needs and will not be shared with any other third party.)

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Educational Placement Decisions

Possible Learning Disability

IQ test

Davidson Institute Application

Educational Advocacy

Assessment for Baywood Learning Center

Application to a program or school not listed above.

Information on child's learning styles

Homeschooling

To better understand my child's educational and emotional needs

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Gifted Development Center Testing Clinic

Gifted Development Center offers testing periodically at Baywood Learning Center. If you are interested in the Gifted Development Center’s world reknown testing services, but cannot travel to Denver, Colorado, this is an opportunity to do it here in California. Please contact the Gifted Development Center directly to let them know you are interested in the testing at Baywood Learning Center: Call 1-888- GIFTED1, see link for more information:

Click here for Gifted Development Center testing clinic information.

Dr. Lou Sherrill

With a Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University, and a member of the Allied Health Professional Staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Sherrill has been identifying gifted children since 1994. Her practice covers a full spectrum of psychological assessment including learning disabilities and severe emotional disorders. She has coached, counseled and consulted to individuals, families and organizations all over the nation.

Lou Ellen Sherrill, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist offers tests at Baywood Learning Center in Oakland, and at her offices in San Francisco and Beverly Hills. Tests offered by Dr. Sherrill include:

WPPSI-III
WISC-IV
Stanford-Binet Inteligence Scales, Fourth Edition
Woodcock-Johnson Test of Academic Achievement-Revised

For more information about Dr. Sherrill services and/or to schedule with her please fill out the form below:

To be contacted about testing with Dr. Lou Sherrill please provide the following information: (This information will be used solely to help connect you with the appropriate testing professional for your needs and will not be shared with any other third party.)

First And Last Name:

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Street:

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City, State, Zip:

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Day Phone:

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Email address:

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What is the best way to contact you?

For what purpose are you seeking testing?

Please tell us the age/s and gender/s of the child/ren you wish to have tested:

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Please add me to the Baywood Learning Center email update list!

Thank you for your interest in testing and assessments!

Baywood Learning Center offers the testing resources on this page as a service to parents. We do not make any specific endorsement or guarantee about these providers.

Baywood Learning Center; Serving the Educational and Emotional Needs of Gifted Children