Help Your Child Understand Their Unique Learning Profile

Age-appropriate feedback sessions that empower children and teens to understand their strengths, challenges, and how their brain works best.

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What Are Child/Teen
Feedback Sessions?

Child/Teen Feedback Sessions are specialized meetings designed to help children and adolescents understand the results of their psychoeducational evaluation in an age-appropriate, strengths-based manner.

These sessions are exclusively available for families who have already completed a comprehensive evaluation or screening with Mind Matters.

While parents receive detailed information during the parent feedback meeting, children and teens benefit from their own tailored explanation that helps them:

  • Understand their unique learning profile

  • Recognize and celebrate their strengths

  • Make sense of their challenges

  • Develop self-advocacy skills

  • Build confidence and self-awareness

Many children and teens experience significant relief when they finally understand why certain tasks have been difficult for them. These sessions transform evaluation results into empowering knowledge that supports your child's academic journey and emotional well-being.

Our Approach to Child/Teen Feedback Sessions

We take a thoughtful, developmentally appropriate approach to helping your child understand their evaluation results:

Step 1

Personalized Preparation

Before meeting with your child, we:

  • Review the evaluation results with a focus on strengths and positive framing

  • Consider your child's age, emotional maturity, and communication style

  • Create custom materials to support understanding:

    • For younger children, we often develop illustrated stories

    • For older children and teens, we may create visual diagrams or letters

  • Consult with you about specific concerns or questions your child has expressed

Step 2

The Feedback Session (45-60 minutes)

During the session, we:

  • Establish rapport and create a comfortable, safe environment

  • Explain findings using concrete examples and age-appropriate language

  • Emphasize strengths and talents while acknowledging challenges

  • Use helpful metaphors and analogies to explain complex concepts

  • Provide specific strategies that leverage strengths to address challenges

  • Encourage questions and validate feelings

  • Help your child develop language to explain their needs to others

Step 3

Skill Building & Self-Advocacy

We help your child develop:

  • Vocabulary to describe their learning style

  • Understanding of accommodations that help them learn best

  • Strategies for asking for help appropriately

  • Recognition of their own successful learning strategies

  • Confidence in their abilities despite challenges

Step 4

Follow-Up Support

After the session:

  • We provide written materials (stories, letters, or visual aids) for your child to reference

  • We consult with you about how to reinforce understanding at home

  • We remain available to answer follow-up questions from you or your child

  • We can provide guidance to share with teachers about how to discuss learning differences with your child

Types of Child/Teen Feedback

Younger Children (Ages 5-8)

For younger children, we typically create:

  • Illustrated, personalized stories that explain their learning style

  • Simple, concrete explanations using familiar examples

  • Positive, empowering language that emphasizes capabilities

  • Visual aids that help make abstract concepts tangible

Elementary School Children (Ages 9-12)

For elementary-aged children, we provide:

  • More detailed explanations balanced with accessible language

  • Visual diagrams and analogies to explain cognitive processes

  • Specific language to help them communicate needs to teachers

  • Tools to understand when and how to ask for help

Adolescents (Ages 13+)

For teens, we offer:

  • Comprehensive yet approachable explanations of evaluation results

  • Connections between findings and their lived experiences

  • Strategies for managing academic challenges independently

  • Guidance on self-advocacy in educational settings

  • Support in understanding the balance of rights and responsibilities

Benefits of Child/Teen Feedback Sessions

Self-Understanding

Your child gains clarity about why certain tasks may be more challenging, reducing self-blame and confusion.

Emotional Relief

Many children experience significant relief from understanding that their struggles stem from differences in brain functioning, not from lack of effort or intelligence.

Self-Advocacy Skills

Your child develops language and confidence to communicate their needs to teachers and other adults.

Empowerment

Understanding one's learning profile leads to greater agency and active participation in the learning process.

Increased Motivation

When children understand how their brain works best, they can apply more effective strategies and experience greater success.

Improved Self-Esteem

Recognizing strengths alongside challenges helps build a positive self-concept and resilience.

Who Provides Child/Teen Feedback Sessions?

Our feedback sessions are conducted by the same licensed clinical and educational psychologists who performed your child's evaluation. This ensures continuity of care and comprehensive understanding of your child's unique profile.

Each of our psychologists has extensive experience communicating complex evaluation findings to children and adolescents in engaging, accessible ways that foster understanding and empowerment.

FEES

$300 for a 30 minute session, which includes:

  • Personalized preparation

  • The feedback meeting itself

  • Custom materials (story, letter, or visual aids)

  • Brief follow-up support

Frequently Asked Questions

  • We generally recommend scheduling the feedback session 2-4 weeks after the parent feedback meeting. This gives you time to process the information first and prepare for any questions your child might have. However, timing can be flexible based on your child's specific situation and readiness.

  • Yes, even if your child knows they were evaluated, they may have misconceptions about what the results mean. A structured feedback session ensures they receive accurate, age-appropriate information that emphasizes their strengths while explaining challenges in a constructive way.

  • We tailor our approach based on your child's developmental level. For very young children, we focus on simple concepts and often use illustrated stories or metaphors. Even young children benefit from understanding that everyone learns differently and that they have unique strengths.

  • We remain available for follow-up questions after the feedback session. You can email us with your child's questions, or we can schedule a brief check-in call if needed. We also provide written materials that you and your child can reference.

  • Our approach is specifically designed to be empowering and positive. We carefully frame challenges as differences in how the brain processes information, not as deficits or problems. Most children and teens actually experience improvement in self-esteem after understanding that their struggles have an explanation and that they have many strengths to draw upon.

  • While we typically meet with just the child, in some cases it may be beneficial to include a teacher, learning specialist, or other family member. This decision is made on a case-by-case basis, considering your child's comfort and the potential benefits of including others in the conversation.

  • We approach resistant teens with respect and sensitivity, focusing first on strengths and areas of interest. We find that many teens actually welcome the opportunity to better understand themselves when the conversation is non-judgmental and emphasizes capabilities alongside challenges. We're experienced in creating a comfortable environment for even reluctant adolescents.

Ready to Help Your Child Understand Their Learning Profile?

Let's Transform Evaluation Results into Empowering Knowledge!

Our child/teen feedback sessions provide age-appropriate understanding that builds self-awareness, confidence, and advocacy skills.