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Measuring What Makes You Unique
Cognitive Assessment
Discover How Your Brain Really Works!
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Our unique cognitive assessment highlights which skills are strong and which ones may need extra support. This helps explain why you (or your child) might excel in some areas but find other tasks more challenging. From there, we can explain the results to you in detail and if necessary, create a personalized brain training plan to build and strengthen those skills.
By working on the areas identified in the assessment, we can help you or your child learn with greater ease, process information faster, and tap into abilities that may not have fully emerged yet.
Don't take our word for it -- take it from our customers. This short video is a parent sharing directly about their experience with the assessment process we recommend. Listen to Peter's experience with his student here:
Which Cognitive Skills and Proficiencies Do We Assess?
Make sure you read more about what the core cognitive skills are in the Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory about the structure of human cognitive abilities first here. After you understand what the core skills are a little better and how they are connected, you will understand why the gold standard of testing (psychologically, intellectually, and neurocognitively!) has to involve a multitude of different processing and critical thinking capacities and categories. Our team is highly trained and certified to properly administer the cognitive skills assessment that you will take. This is to ensure that your outcome is trustworthy, quantitatively and qualitatively, and that we can provide meaningful results with recommendations on any weaknesses in the cognitive skillset.
Now for the details, so you can have confidence in scheduling an assessment -- here is what our assessment focuses on and measures:
Attention/Sustained: This skill involves your ability to sustain concentration and involvement in a task over an extended period of time. Weaknesses here may lead to unfinished projects and task-switching tendencies.
Simultaneous Processing/Divided Attention: This skill involves handling multiple tasks simultaneously, such as listening to an instructor while taking notes or driving a car while conversing. It's crucial for multitasking effectively.
Sequential Processing: The ability to link a series of inputs over time, vital for tasks like reading comprehension and problem-solving.
Executive Functioning: This encompasses reasoning, planning, and idea formation, essential for problem-solving and decision-making processes.
Processing Speed: This skill denotes the ability to perform cognitive tasks swiftly, crucial for complex tasks with multiple steps.
Short-Term Memory: The capacity to store and recall small amounts of information about the current situation, vital for following instructions and retaining information momentarily.
Long-Term Memory: The ability to recall information stored in the past, crucial for tasks like spelling and comprehension.
Auditory Processing: The skill of perceiving, analyzing, and conceptualizing auditory information, critical for reading and spelling.
Visual Processing: The ability to perceive, analyze, and think in visual images, including visualization. Weakness in this area can manifest as difficulties in reading, following instructions, and comprehension.
Intelligence Quotient: Your IQ is not a fixed, immovable number like science once believed! Neuroplasticity allows for the number to improve as we challenge our cognitive processes. We calculate your composite IQ along with your full cognitive skills results, taking your strengths and weaknesses into consideration to provide a more reliable calculation that represents cognitive function instead of test-taking ability.
Our Cognitive Skills Training Programs are custom-designed to assess and enhance all these skills, facilitating faster learning, improved work performance, and greater proficiency in daily tasks. Join us at Thinkable Learning Centre to unlock your brain's full potential and achieve your cognitive goals.
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More About Cognitive Assessments...
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If you pursue testing, a key thing to look for is how well the professional explains the results afterward. That's where Thinkable Learning Centre stands out from the crowd. It's one thing to produce a big report -- it's quite another to coherently explain the results in a way that leads to clarity and understanding on the path forward for the student involved. All reports are only helpful if you understand what it means for your own child. A good evaluator will take time to walk you through the findings, answer your questions, and help you make sense of next steps. This is our main commitment at Thinkable -- to take the time to get a reliable result for your child in the assessment process AND to make sure that we can clearly and simply explain the results to you afterwards, as well as answer any questions you may have from the results or what they mean.
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Some common assessments you might hear about in academia include the WISC, WAIS, Stanford-Binet, Woodcock-Johnson, and others. These tools look at different areas of thinking, learning, and processing. These are considered the gold standards currently for this community. Thinkable Learning Centre is proud to use an innovative and proprietary cognitive assessment based on the Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory (commonly abbreviated to CHC), which is the psychological theory on the structure of human cognitive abilities. Even more specifically, Thinkable's assessment is benchmarked and tested most directly to the Woodcock-Johnson method of assessment so that you can trust the results are meaningful, helpful, qualititive AND quantitative, and will clearly indicate and describe the strengths and weaknesses for each cognitive skill. The results are useful to a variety of professionals, including: doctors, teachers, psychologists, academic administrators and SEN staff, and also helpful in developing educational support plans. We want you to be confident when you test and this assessment has provided exceptionally valuable in that effort.
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The cognitive assessment space is filled with overpriced reporting and waiting lists. At Thinkable Learning Centre, we are working hard to disrupt that "norm" by offering NO WAITING LIST for cognitive assessments and by offering them at a price that helps you get what you need now - not when you've saved up for it. Too often, cognitive assessments now regularly cost €1500-2500 in Dublin. Ours is never higher than €250 and has significantly more information in it than most. Too often, the waitlist is years long. We have availability this week - really! ​​​​
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Further Into The Weeds: How Does This Cognitive Assessment Compare To Others?
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​The cognitive assessment space is filled with overpriced reporting and waiting lists. Take a look at exactly how our cognitive assessment compares to the most popular ones available across Ireland and globally right here:
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What Does the Direct Comparison To The Woodcock-Johnson Test of Cognitive Abilities Look Like?
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Take a look at exactly how our cognitive assessment compares to testing metrics used globally and Irish assessments:
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Data is Great - But What Does It Mean For Struggling Students?
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Take a look at cognitive assessments results AND brain training outcomes from a real example of a real student in Ireland that we posted on our Instagram account. This student case study is from 2025 in our Dublin location and is shared with permission. All identifiable information has been removed to protect privacy, but the parents were eager for us to share the outcomes they achieved with their son.
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Basic Information:
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1. The parents had concerns about specific academic performance issues for their 9 year old son attending a National School. He had been on two waiting lists for assessment by the HSE for years and was not receiving any educational accommodations as a result of the delays.
2. The parents collected school reports and documentation to show us his poor academic performance and to show when he was put on lists for dyslexia or ADHD. The documentation showed that administrators, teachers, and SEN/SNA coordinators didn't understood the learning issues, so they were guessing on what assessment process might identify the right intervention -- he didn't present with either classic clinical profile.
3. We did an initial consultation (no cost, no obligation) to understand the struggles from the perspective of the parent and the student. From this consultation, the family decided that purchasing a cognitive assessment for €250 was the right next step for them.
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4. Thinkable administered The Gibson Test of Cognitive Skills to identify the child's exact situation and cognitive skill levels. On test day, nothing else happens - just the standardized test process. The assessment was successfully completed in about 90 minutes for this student. ​​​
​​​​​​​5. Thinkable compiled the results to share with the family with the goal of explaining the findings in a formal report both quantitatively and qualitatively. When results were compiled, Thinkable scheduled a results session with the family to discuss the findings, answer questions, and make recommendations where appropriate. This session was at no additional cost to the family. A free hard copy of the results was also provided. The whole process? Less than a week!
6. Some obvious patterns immediately emerged. Some of the core skills necessary to perform certain cognitive processes efficiently were weak. The video shows you exactly which ones. This student's specific profile and results show us that brain training would likely be an appropriate and effective intervention. The research guided which intervention, what duration, and what intensity we recommended.
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7. Language difficulties, despite English fluency. Maths difficulties that weren't being fixed with revision or grinds-type assistance. Tutoring didn't help. Staying after school with teachers wasn't helping. That's where brain training came in. The family chose a program that fit their schedule, understanding that intensity is a key part of the program success. Fast forward to 3 months later.... and we have a very different student. The video shows the post-training profile, as well as follow-up assessment outcomes.
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8. Let's let the data and parent perception drive the rest of the conversation! We're never out to sell programs or assessments to people who don't need them or who can't benefit from them. When we say we can help - we mean it. We want to give you the information and tools you need to succeed and nothing less (and nothing more!).
Who Are We?​​
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​Thinkable Learning Centre offers one-on-one brain training designed to strengthen the key cognitive skills that support learning and performance. You can read more about us here. Built on more than 40 years of research, our approach focuses on improving how the brain processes information. We have supported individuals facing challenges such as reading difficulties and dyslexia, attention issues including ADHD, memory concerns, learning differences, and more.
Brain training simply makes all this processing faster and easier.
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For the struggling student, these automatic processes often let them down. The ease of understanding new information that should have been normal becomes difficult and awkward. Learning that should have been easy is a frustrating effort. Reading that should have been effortless is a slow, embarrassing trial.
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Brain training can change all that. A cognitive assessment can show you how. If you're in or near Dublin, we can help!
How does it work? Three Steps. That's All It Takes. Our expert team guides every student (and their parents/partners!) through a three-step process: Assessment, engagement about the Results, and then Training for Strength. Each step is entirely personalized and crafted to the student's specific learning needs as identified by our world-class assessment. This process allows us cater to individual cognitive skill combinations that are unique to each individual. The outcomes our students enjoy as a result of completing our brain training programs include: increased processing speed, memory, attention, and all aspects of the cognitive learning process -- benefits that group work and private tuition can never meaningfully offer. Most students also get the secondary advantage of a measurable increase in reading proficiency!
We Do Things Differently At Thinkable!
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Step One
Assessment is key. We evaluate every student's auditory, visual, memory, attention, language, & critical thinking skills. The cognitive skills results will outline their core strengths and areas for improvement (qualitatively & quantitatively), often validating concerns in specific & measurable ways.
Step Two
Programs are personalized. What you need -- nothing less, nothing more. Once skill differences are identified, we customize the brain training program that can target learning challenges. Interactive sessions keep students motivated and engaged, slowly building confidence in their new abilities.
Step Three
Train the brain! Repetition and intensity are the key to achieving a neuroplastic effect from brain training. Our trainers work with a singular focus of creating lasting outcomes by using the best neurocognitive methods available in our programs. Our activities are fun, engaging, and challenging.
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