Learning Profile Assessments

No. While the assessment does not replace a Psychoeducational Assessment, it does provide valuable information in simplified language so that parents, coaches, and teachers can understand your child’s unique learning needs and how their strengths and needs impact their academic performance. The experts at MindPrint have taken the time to explain these terms so that you can specifically understand how they impact learning and life skills.

MindPrint Learning is the only K12 solution that uses objective cognitive data to teach students how they learn best and provide strategies personalized to students’ learning strengths and needs. Just like a fingerprint, each student has a unique “MindPrint” that provides clear insight into how a student learns most efficiently and what supports they need to succeed. At the core of MindPrint is an hour-long online, self-administered cognitive assessment developed at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.

While no tool can replace thorough observation from a skilled professional, there are often lengthy wait times (sometimes upwards of 6 months) to receive a cognitive evaluation of a preferred practitioner. Costs typically range from $1500 – $5000, depending on service and location.

Our LPA is an affordable first step that can offer a useful solution while awaiting a full cognitive evaluation and can certainly assist in identifying which practitioner speciality might be most appropriate based on MindPrint’s objective data, coupled with Kaizen’s thoughtfully evaluated input.

No. The LPA measures 10 cognitive skills and will indicate if your child excels in one or more areas of learning or Executive Function Skills. This information can then be shared with educators and other experts in your child’s support team to determine if further exploration is required, or what accommodations can be considered as part of your child’s learning program.

No. Only an in-person evaluation by a licensed clinician can lead to a medical diagnosis of a learning disability. The LPA measures 10 cognitive skills and will indicate if your child struggles in any area, or demonstrates a deficit as compared to their peers. Completing a LPA will provide you with important information to take the next step and make informed decisions on how to best support your child.

Most frequently, clinicians and schools use the term “learning disability” to indicate a diagnosis that qualifies for accommodations. Some parents, students, and teachers, including the team here at Kaizen, prefer the term “learning difference” because it conveys your child’s ability to succeed.

Your child will perform the LPA online at home. There are NO reading passages and NO math computations. Students who have taken the LPA have described it as “a series of puzzles” and typically say “it was actually really fun”.

The LPA takes about 45 – 60 minutes to complete and the program provides brain breaks between areas of focus.

The LPA includes a personalized follow-up session with Kaizen’s Director to ask any questions and discuss any concerns specific to your child’s MindPrint results.

Upon completion of the LPA through Kaizen, you will receive:

• Your comprehensive MindPrint assessment, an incredible tool Kaizen employs that measures cognitive skills in 4 core areas: reasoning, executive functions, memory, and speed.
• Complete access to your results: MindPrint Profile, Learner Profile, and Academic Profile.
• A one-on-one consultation with Kaizen’s Director (a certified, MindPrint-trained, experienced educator) to review results and provide specific recommendations just for your child.
• Simple translation of MindPrint’s results, making your next step(s) easy to interpret and understand.
• A summary document created by Kaizen’s Director to provide your child’s learning team with a “quick snapshot” of strengths, needs, and recommendations.
• Additional strategies, recommendations, and resources, uniquely personalized for your student.

The LPA explains how your child learns best, and identifies areas where your child needs support, how this affects different subjects and areas of learning, and what evidence-based strategies your child can utilize to succeed.

MindPrint’s LPA was developed by physicians and researchers in the Brain Behaviour Laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. The MindPrint assessment has been tested in over 100, 000 participants worldwide, including NASA astronauts.

Administration of the evaluation provides an incredibly accurate understanding of your child’s cognitive strengths and needs relative to their peers and offers the best prediction of academic performance and socio-economic success.

Kaizen has partnered with MindPrint and added decades of educator experience to provide you with a comprehensive assessment, including the ability to discuss and ask questions in a personalized follow-up session (a $250 value!).

MindPrint offers the only fully online valid and normed online cognitive test for children between the ages of 8 and 21. Unless results of a cognitive test are interpreted in the context of an appropriate peer group relative to your child, they are likely to be inaccurate. If you are considering an alternative to MindPrint, you may want to investigate who created the test, under what conditions, and if scores are based on a large sample of children, and are properly normed and validated. To be assured the alternative evaluation is valid, you will want to investigate the peer-reviewed research on the alternative.

Yes. Both MindPrint and Kaizen are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and security of its users, adhering to strict privacy and security standards. The results of your MindPrint evaluation belong strictly to the account holder, and individual results will never be shared by MindPrint. Both MindPrint and Kaizen do not sell, lease, or rent you or your child’s personal information to anyone, for any reason, at any time. Both MindPrint and Kaizen are fully committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and security of its users.