Welcome to PsychAssess

PsychAssess offers professional and caring assistance in the following areas:

  • School Readiness Assessment

(5 & 6 year olds)
Detailed assessment of your child’s abilities & emotional readiness to start Grade 0 or Grade 1.

  • Assessment of IQ, Learning Strengths and Developmental Areas

(7 to 16 years old)
Is your child having difficulty coping with school or homework? 
Is your child having trouble paying attention or concentrating in class?
Is your child not performing to his or her potential?
Is he or she having emotional or behavioural difficulties?

  •  Reading Assistance

A gentle and helpful environment to assist your child to:

learn to read (from age 5)
remediate reading difficulties and improve spelling

overcome dyslexia (for children and adults)

  • Maths Enrichment

A Maths Enrichment programme designed to develop the maths skills your child needs (grade 1 to 8).

  • Career Guidance (Grade 10 students and above)

Detailed assessment of your child’s aptitudes, personality, interests & values in order to offerguidance in terms of post matriculation studies and career transition.

  • Assistance with Choosing School Subjects for Grade 10 (Grade 8 & 9 students)

Individual interests, values, personality and aptitude strengths and weaknesses are assessed in orer to ensure the most appropriate subjects are chosen.

Group career or subject choice assessments can be arranged at the learner'sschool or at PsychAssess - this is convenient for schools and parents, and reduces the cost of the assessment.

  • Study Skills Workshop

An individual or group based workshop designed to assist high school learners to fulfil their potential academically and study more successfully.

  •  CV Writing, Interviews and Job Finding Workshops

Individual or group based workshops to help young adults and learners to sucessfully understand the world of work and enter the job market

Group workshops can be arranged at the learner' school - this is convenient for schools and parents, and reduces the cost of the workshop.

  • Extra Lessons / Tutoring

Melanie offers extra lessons or tuition in the following subjects:

UNISA BEd courses (such as EDT101 & 102; PRS 101, 102, 103; EDT 201, 202, 203; PRS 201, 202, 203 etc. )

BA Psychology (First, Second, Third or Honours years)

Psychometric Internship Course work 

  •  Recruitment / Pre-Employment Testing / Employee Team Building and Personal Development

PsychAssess conducts recruitment or pre-employment testing for schools, organisations and educational based recruitment agencies to assist with the hiring of teaching and management staff for schools. We also offer psychometrically based team building workshops and personal & career path development assessments. 

  • CPD Accredited Meeting Group

PsychAssess run a small meeting group for professionals who are interested in psychometric testing - the group is accredited for CPD points through the HPCSA.

  •  Psychometric Internship offered at PsychAssess 

We offer a part-time unpaid internship for psychometry interns who are registered with UNISA and HPCSA. We will be looking for an intern for 2013, please email melanie@psychassess.co.za in August 2012 for more details and application form.