Comprehensive Neurocognitive Assessments
Comprehensive Evaluations for Children, Adolescents & College-Aged Young Adults
Comprehensive Neurocognitive Assessments
Comprehensive Evaluations for Children, Adolescents & College-Aged Young Adults
Discover your child's unique cognitive profile
Welcome to Comprehensive Neurocognitive Assessments, offering thorough, evidence-based evaluations to confirm or rule out any and all possible concerns that may be contributing to your child's presenting difficulties so as to inform actionable and effective strategies for support, intervention and accommodations. Serving the greater Chicagoland, West Suburban and exurban areas, with offices in Naperville, IL.
SPECIALIZING IN:
- Comprehensive Educational Evaluations
- Learning Disorders / Learning Disability (LD: Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia)
- Attention Deficit Disorders / ADHD (with & without Hyperactivity)
- Gifted, Talented & Twice Exceptional Student Evaluations
- Anxiety and related disorders
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Blind/Low Vision and Deaf / Hearing Impaired Educational Testing
- Acquired and Developmental Neurological Disorders (TBI, CVA, Status-post brain tumor, Epilepsy)
About N. Scott Johnson
38 Years of Clinical Experience
38 Years of Clinical Experience
38 Years of Clinical Experience
38 Years of Clinical Experience
38 Years of Clinical Experience
Subsequent to completing his Master's Degree in Psychology with a specialization in Behavioral Assessment and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at North Dakota State University, Scott Johnson was accepted into the APA-Accredited Doctoral Training program in Clinical Psychology at the University of North Dakota. There, Scott completed all required coursework, clinical training, and his final comprehensive examinations, with specialized training and supervised practica in Pediatric Neuropsychology and Neuropsychological Testing. Scott was then accepted into and completed the APA-Accredited Pre-Doctoral Internship Program at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Through his clinical placement at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital, Scott received additional training in Neuropsychological testing and intervention with children and young adults suffering from developmental and acquired neurological disorders under the supervision and tutelage of the Doctoral level staff within the Department of Psychological Medicine. Scott has not completed his dissertation, which is the final required element of Ph.D. level training.
Prior to beginning his private practice in 2008, Scott spent 20 years working within the Rehabilitation Medicine Clinic at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital. He has conducted comprehensive evaluations and offered treatment recommendations to physicians, parents and educators for thousands of children presenting with developmental and acquired neurological disorders. Scott has been a consultant to the Illinois State Board of Education on Special Educational programming; he has been awarded over $100,000 in grant funding for neurocognitive testing with underprivileged children; he has numerous publications in the area of Traumatic Brain Injury; he has been an adjunct instructor teaching Master's level graduate students through George Williams College - School of Education at Aurora University, and he has provided over 100 invited professional lectures, presentations and addresses at local, regional and national conferences.
Frequently Asked Questions
The primary reasons that most referral sources refer their clients/students specifically to me for an evaluation include the value that they derive from my comprehensive assessments, as my assessments do not simply seek to answer the specific referral question -as your family Dr. may do, I am able to confirm or rule out additional or alternative concerns that may be present. Additionally, unlike most practitioners, I am a sub-specialist in this field. I complete detailed, comprehensive neurocognitive evaluations with children, adolescents, and college-aged young adults in efforts to aid in the accurate identification/diagnosis and appropriate treatment of any neurocognitive, academic, social-emotional and/or behavioral difficulties they may be experiencing that might adversely impact on optimal educational, social-interpersonal, or developmental progress. This is my sole specialization as I feel very strongly that the more one studies, practices and specializes in a single domain and a specific population of clients (children, teens & college-aged students); the more effective one can be, and I take great pride in the quality of my work. It is also pertinent to note that unlike Pediatric Neuropsychologists who often employ testing technicians to conduct the testing; my training in the “Boston Process Approach” to assessment -which necessitates close observation of the student’s performance throughout the evaluation- ensures an accurate and complete understanding of the student's presenting difficulties.
My evaluations typically include cognitive/intellectual ability testing (IQ testing); assessments of academic achievement; memory testing; measures of neural processing speed & academic fluency; measures of attention and concentration; and tasks tapping working memory skills and other executive cognitive processing skills. In addition, assessments tapping word-retrieval, language processing/formulation skills, visual-perceptual processing, and visual motor & manual fine motor skills are administered as appropriate and when indicated. The student may be asked to participate in interview-based and/or paper & pencil completion of self-report behavior/symptom ratings in efforts to identify or rule out indications of anxiety, concerns surrounding self-esteem and self-efficacy, possible feelings of depression or 'Learned Helplessness', and other emotionally based difficulties. Parents and teachers may also be asked to complete symptom and behavior rating scales in efforts to identify possible emotional or behavioral factors that might be contributing to the student’s presenting difficulties. I complete only comprehensive evaluations rather than ‘screening’ assessments because a thorough assessment of all aspects of a student’s unique profile of strengths and needs is necessary to ensure that parents, therapists, educators, physicians, and other allied health professionals can obtain a complete understanding of the underlying/core "causes" of the student’s manifest emotional, social-interpersonal, academic and/or behavioral difficulties. Properly identified, this information allows me to generate detailed, targeted, specific, and actionable recommendations for treatment or intervention and to delineate supports and accommodations that might be helpful in efforts to circumvent, address or remediate those difficulties. The goal is to facilitate greater personal, social, and academic success within the school, home, community and/or social settings.
Although you may wish to ask your child's Dr. for a referral, a formal referral is not required. Children aged 5 and under normally need three visits of roughly 2- to 3-hours duration to complete the assessment. Students aged 6 and over typically complete the evaluation in two visits, one of which entails a ‘longer’ day (9:00 AM until 11:30 –with an hour-long lunch break- and then resuming with an afternoon session running from 12:30 until 3:00). The other visit is usually three hours in duration and would run from 9:00 until noon. Upon completion of the evaluation, a two- to three-hour parent feedback appointment is scheduled at a mutually convenient date and time (typically within one week of the final testing date) wherein the findings and recommendations are reviewed in detail, and all of your questions/concerns are answered/addressed. After receipt of payment for the final balance due, which is due at the time of the parent feedback meeting -on the next business day following clearance of the balance due- I then dictate a comprehensive written summary report, and that final report is typically back from my dictation service and corrected/edited so that it can be sent to you within 10 to 12 business days. Parents may share that written summary with their child’s Pediatrician, therapist(s), school, or any other parties that they feel might benefit from the recommendations contained therein.
Contact me
For additional information, please email me at scottjohnson@neurocogtesting.net
I will reply to your email with additional information regarding the assessment process, along with detailed information regarding scheduling & payment policies and procedures.
Comprehensive Neurocognitive Assessments
1755 Park Street, Suite 200, Naperville, IL, USA
Ph: 630.352.0138 Fax: 866.418.1034