The Regional Assessment and Resource Centre
Encyclopedia
The Regional Assessment and Resource Centre is a project funded by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities of Ontario. It provides psycho-educational or neuropsychological assessment
services to students at all publicly funded post-secondary
institutions in Southern Ontario
. The team of professionals who work with RARC are recognized for providing high quality assessments with on-site follow-up care and support.
Their mission is to provide access to affordable and quality psychological and psycho-educational assessments to post-secondary students with learning difficulties
.
They provide their clients with a better understanding of their unique learning strengths and challenges, and access to appropriate supports and accommodations.
In addition, the RARC also provides training opportunities to graduate students
, and contributes to body of research regarding adults with learning disorders. To date, staff at the RARC have produced a number of seminal research papers. Dr. Allyson G. Harrison, the Clinical Director of the Centre, has written a number of often-cited papers, including one on best practice
s for assessment and diagnosis of learning disabilities, which was one of the 50 most frequently read articles in the Canadian Journal of School Psychology http://cjs.sagepub.com/reports/mfr1.dtl. Other published research includes an evaluation of the quality of disability documentation provided to Disability Services Offices by students , investigations regarding better methods of determining overall intelligence in persons with Dyslexia , and the effects of mild traumatic brain injury
on speed of information processing
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Neuropsychological assessment
Neuropsychological assessment was traditionally carried out to assess the extent of impairment to a particular skill and to attempt to locate an area of the brain which may have been damaged after brain injury or neurological illness...
services to students at all publicly funded post-secondary
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
institutions in Southern Ontario
Southern Ontario
Southern Ontario is a region of the province of Ontario, Canada that lies south of the French River and Algonquin Park. Depending on the inclusion of the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts, its surface area would cover between 14 to 15% of the province. It is the southernmost region of...
. The team of professionals who work with RARC are recognized for providing high quality assessments with on-site follow-up care and support.
Their mission is to provide access to affordable and quality psychological and psycho-educational assessments to post-secondary students with learning difficulties
Learning disability
Learning disability is a classification including several disorders in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors...
.
They provide their clients with a better understanding of their unique learning strengths and challenges, and access to appropriate supports and accommodations.
In addition, the RARC also provides training opportunities to graduate students
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
, and contributes to body of research regarding adults with learning disorders. To date, staff at the RARC have produced a number of seminal research papers. Dr. Allyson G. Harrison, the Clinical Director of the Centre, has written a number of often-cited papers, including one on best practice
Best practice
A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark...
s for assessment and diagnosis of learning disabilities, which was one of the 50 most frequently read articles in the Canadian Journal of School Psychology http://cjs.sagepub.com/reports/mfr1.dtl. Other published research includes an evaluation of the quality of disability documentation provided to Disability Services Offices by students , investigations regarding better methods of determining overall intelligence in persons with Dyslexia , and the effects of mild traumatic brain injury
Concussion of the brain
Concussion, from the Latin concutere or the Latin concussus , is the most common type of traumatic brain injury...
on speed of information processing
Information processing
Information processing is the change of information in any manner detectable by an observer. As such, it is a process which describes everything which happens in the universe, from the falling of a rock to the printing of a text file from a digital computer system...
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