About The NJ Center for Psychological Assessment
After working in the public school system for many years, I discovered that children learn in many different ways and modalities. Traditional school based testing only provides a single piece of the puzzle about how kids learn and is focused primarily on learning disabilities based on discrepancies between a child’s cognitive ability and their achievement on standardized tests. However, at the NJ Center for Psychological Assessment, we look to go well beyond what schools utilize to determine how children best learn. Using the newest and most advanced testing instruments we look at the neuropsychological functioning of children that tap intelligence, basic achievement skills including math and reading, executive skills including planning, organization of information, flexibility and inhibition, attention skills, learning and memory skills, language functioning, visual-spatial skills, sensorimotor functioning and personality/emotional functioning.
A typical neuropsychological analysis, which deals with the relationship of children’s learning and behavior to their brain structures and systems, can last approximately 6 to 8 hours and allows for the formulation of a complete cognitive profile. Only after an evaluation, can the results be analyzed in order to devise a targeted educational program or treatment plan to optimize a child’s performance in and out of school.
Depending upon the individual child, some areas of assessment might require more detail than others. An important aspect of testing is interpreting the results in light of a detailed past developmental, educational and medical history of your child. This information is key to understanding a child’s unique situation.
Meet Doctor David Weiss
David M. Weiss, Psy.D.
NJ Licensed Psychologist #35SI00492000
NJ Certified School Psychologist
Dr. David Weiss Psy D. created the New Jersey Center for Psychological Assessment to help parents determine what their child’s capabilities are intellectually and academically as well as answer questions relating to school performance, psychological well being (Anxiety, Depression) or whether a psychiatric condition, like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Nonverbal Learning Disability, Aspergers or Autism is present.
About Dr. Weiss
Upon receipt of his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Drew University in 2000, Dr. Weiss enrolled in and completed a Master of Arts program in Forensic Psychology at the renowned John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
He earned his doctorate in 2007 from Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and specialized in school and child clinical psychology. Prior to and after obtaining his degree, Dr. Weiss has worked in both urban and suburban school districts and is currently a NJ State certified school psychologist in the Piscataway Township
public schools.
Dr. Weiss also has many years of cognitive and neuropsychological testing experience, gained not just from working in the school system, but from working directly with Dr. Ilyse O’Desky.
Dr. Weiss is also currently involved with the American Psychological Association’s Division 16 (School) and Division 53 (Child Clinical) as well as being a member of the New Jersey Psychological Association.
NJ Licensed Psychologist as of March 2012.