Psychology Assessment Center

One Bowdoin Square, 7th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-643-3997

The pediatric specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Psychology Assessment Center provide neuropsychological assessments in order to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders that affect intellectual, cognitive, learning, academic, personality and the emotional status of children.

Multidisciplinary Treatment for Complex Diagnoses

A multidisciplinary team of psychologists representing neuropsychology, clinical, developmental and school psychology provide evaluation, consultation and referral for a broad spectrum of concerns, including:

• Learning disabilities
• Intellectual functioning
• Attention Deficit Disorders
• Developmental disorders
• Brain trauma
• Neurological disease and disorders
• Childhood cancers
• Personality assessment
• Social and emotional difficulties
• Educational consulting services

Specialized Pediatric Psychology Services include: 

• Neuropsychological evaluation
• Cognitive screening
• Attention deficit disorder screening and diagnosis in adults and children
• Emotional screening/personality assessment
• Monitoring of cognitive development in premature infants
• Research pertaining to neurocognitive disorders in children
• Feedback to patients/parents and referral sources explaining assessment results
• Consultation with patients/parents to review previous test results
• Neuropsychological assessments in Spanish
• Services across the life-span: childhood to geriatric populations
• Education/pediatrics resident rotation/in-services to staff

Collaboration with Educational Professionals

The Psychology Assessment Center offers educational consulting to bridge the gap between our report recommendations and implementation in the child’s school environment. The consulting also offers communication of parents’ expectations for their child’s education to school personnel.

Please note that while most health insurances cover neuropsychological assessment when there is an underlying medical disorder, most do not do so for the purposes of diagnosing learning disabilities. You may either contact your local school system to request authorization of an independent educational evaluation (second, outside opinion) to cover the cost of testing for learning disabilities and/or psychological assessment for personality, social and emotional difficulties for your child, or sign a waiver agreeing to pay the cost of the evaluation.