At Insights Psychology, our assessment services are designed to help individuals and families gain a clear understanding of learning, developmental, and neurodivergent profiles. Our goal is to provide affirming, evidence-based insights that empower you to make informed decisions about next steps in education, therapy, and everyday life.
We believe that understanding how a person learns, processes, and interacts with the world can be deeply transformative — fostering self-awareness, acceptance, and access to meaningful support.
We Celebrate Difference!
At Insights Psychology, we specialise in supporting children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental differences. Our expert multidisciplinary team offer tailored assessments to explore unique brain styles that may impact on learning, attention, communication, and motor or sensory skills.
Our goal is to celebrate the strengths of neurodivergent children and young people, and to empower them to thrive in their own way.
Neurodevelopmental Assessments for Under 5s
Neurodevelopmental Assessments for School Age Children (5-17)
What a typical assessment looks like:
Every assessment at Insights begins with a parent or client consultation. This first meeting allows our psychologists to gather background information, discuss your concerns, and explore the best assessment pathway for your needs.
Assessments are typically conducted by a multidisciplinary team, which may include Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, and Occupational Therapists. This team-based approach ensures a holistic understanding of strengths and challenges across areas such as cognition, communication, attention, emotional regulation, and learning.
Typical steps in the assessment process include:
Parent Consultation & Information Gathering
Assessment with the Young Person
Collating Outcome & Report
Feedback to Family & School
Our Developmental Assessments help families understand a young child’s early progress across key areas such as communication, motor coordination, play, attention, and emotional regulation. These assessments are ideal when there are concerns about delays or differences in early milestones.
A specialist team — typically including a psychologist and either a Speech and Language or Occupational Therapist — uses gold-standard tools to identify developmental strengths and areas where early intervention may be helpful.
Our Neurodevelopmental Assessments explore areas such as learning, attention, language, motor coordination, and social communication. These assessments may explore possible neurodevelopmental diagnoses such as Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Learning Disorders, Dyspraxia (DCD), or Language Disorders.
Each assessment is tailored to the individual and typically includes classroom observation (for younger children), standardized testing, and feedback sessions for both parents and teachers. Our team ensures that every assessment is affirming, collaborative, and respectful, helping families and individuals gain clarity while focusing on strengths and practical supports.
We also offer assessments for adults exploring neurodivergence — including Autism, ADHD, and learning differences. These assessments are also led by licensed Psychologists, with input from the wider multidisciplinary team, who take a collaborative, affirming approach to help clients gain self-understanding, improve daily functioning, and access relevant accommodations or supports.
For some families, a school-based consultation may be a more suitable first step than a formal diagnostic assessment. The Collaborative School Consultation (CSC) process involves a psychologist visiting the child’s school, conducting classroom observations, and facilitating a joint meeting with parents and school staff.
This process helps identify learning, behavioral, or social-emotional needs and supports the development of strategies or school-based plans (such as an Individual Education Plan or Regulation Support Plan). While this service does not provide a formal diagnosis, it offers valuable insight into how the child can be best supported within their educational environment. It can also serve as an excellent early step before pursuing a full assessment later on.
At Insights, we are passionate about making assessments meaningful, respectful, and empowering.
Our clinicians aim not only to identify challenges but also to celebrate strengths, helping every individual — child, teen, or adult — better understand themselves and the unique way they experience the world.
At Insights Psychology, we offer evidence-based psychological therapy including parenting support and play-based therapy to support the emotional wellbeing of children, young people, and their families. Whether the young person is experiencing anxiety, low mood, behavioural challenges, or difficulties with friendships and school, therapy provides a safe space to explore emotions and develop coping skills.
Our child-centred approach ensures that each young person receives support tailored to their unique needs. Play-based therapy helps younger children express themselves in a natural, developmentally appropriate way, while talking therapies provide a space for older children and teens to process their thoughts and experiences. We work closely with families to foster resilience and positive change.
Some of our Therapeutic Approaches Include:
CBT
ACT
EMDR
Child Centred Play Therapy
Narrative Therapy
DBT
Systemic & Family-Based Therapy
Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) is a specialised service supporting communication for children and adolescents. It addresses a range of areas including language, speech sounds, voice, social interaction, AAC (Alternative and Augmentative Communication), and fluency. At Insights, our focus is on empowering clients to communicate effectively and confidently in their daily lives.
Our journey begins with an initial consultation and assessment to identify individual needs and set therapy goals. For children, we adopt an affirmative approach, involving parents, teachers, and caregivers to ensure strategies are consistent across environments, and strengths are celebrated. Therapy may include play-based sessions, active learning, or group activities tailored to the child’s unique requirements.
For adolescents, therapy is designed to address specific challenges using consultation, counselling, and targeted interventions. Sessions are conducted in our private, welcoming clinic in JLT, and in select few schools across Dubai.
SLT services at Insights include but are not limited to:
Typical difficulties addressed as part of our SLT services include:
Developmental language needs
Speech sounds and pronunciation difficulties
Social communication differences
Global developmental delays
Unexplained speech and language delays
Occupational Therapy (OT) is an allied health profession focused on enhancing function and promoting independence. Our skilled OT team supports children and adolescents with tailored services that can be delivered at our clinic in JLT, online, or in select schools across Dubai.
For children, our OTs address areas of participation such as play, school, daily living activities (dressing, feeding, toileting), social interaction, and sleep. They focus on promoting independence and meaningful engagement in activities. With expertise in sensory regulation, motor coordination, attention, handwriting, and more, our team is well-equipped to meet diverse needs.
OT Services at Insights Psychology include, but are not limited to:
Typical Queries for Assessment
Families and individuals often come to Insights when there are questions or concerns about:
Sensory regulation
Motor strength and coordination
Emotional regulation
Attention and concentration
Visual perceptual skills
Visual spatial skills
Handwriting
Executive function
We are not an emergency service, if you or someone you know is in crisis, please go to the emergency department at Al Jalila Children’s Hospital or Rashid Hospital
