Continue on your Core Competencies for Formal Clinical Assessment journey with this 40-hour, neurodiversity-affirming assessment course for practicing psychologists who want to assess more accurately, ethically, and
competently across the lifespan, from children to adults.
Blended, mixed-mode delivery: Complete each recorded lecture on your own time, then bring it into the corresponding live evening seminar.
Timeline
Summer 2026 cohort begins July 6, 2026.
Weekly live seminars on Wednesday evenings, starting July 15.
6:00 to 9:00 PM MST
Seats are limited to keep seminars discussion-based.
Course at a Glance
40
Continuing Education Hours
6+6
Lectures and Live Seminars
7 Weeks
Jul 6 – Aug 19, 2026
4 Applied
CAT-Q, DIVA-5, Vineland-3, ABAS-3, plus more discussed
What You'll Learn
Skills you can use in your next assessment:
Affirming language and formulation. Apply strengths-based, contextual, behaviourally grounded language and the five-step reframing framework throughout your reports.
Accessible assessment environments. Run the four-domain accessibility audit which covers physical space, intake and transitions, testing pace, and communication format, so you can address accommodations that are often overlooked and document them in the assessment report, strengthening the validity of your findings and clinical rationale.
Developmental history across the lifespan. Gather valid developmental history for clients of any age, including adults without childhood records, using masking-sensitive, example-eliciting interview techniques.
Screen for masking directly. Recognize and screen for camouflaging across the lifespan, and understand who masks most and why the diagnostic gap persists.
Differential formulation. Reason across ADHD, autism, anxiety, trauma, and learning differences, and handle complex or inconclusive presentations honestly.
Reports and feedback that land. Synthesize multiple data sources into a coherent formation and structure feedback sessions as a clinical intervention in their own right.
How The Course Runs
The Working with Neurodiverse Populations in Assessment course is delivered through both recorded lectures and live seminars.
The live sessions are where the recorded content becomes practice: you work through real and composite cases, adapt your current assessment approach, and leave with usable examples you can take straight into your work.
Build on the practice manual you started.
In Core Competencies, you began a professional practice manual. This course is where you keep building it.
As you move through the course, you’ll develop a Practice Change Plan: three immediate, observable changes to your assessment practice and one systems-level change to advocate for in your clinic, team, or organization.
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This Course is For You, If You:
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Conduct or contribute to psychological assessments with clients of any age, from children to adults, and want a neurodiversity-affirming approach grounded in current evidence.
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Keep seeing clients who were missed, mislabeled, or assessed against a deficit-based template.
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Want practical, defensible tools for assessing masking, developmental history, battery planning, and report writing.
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Have completed Core Competencies and are ready to move into the applied program.
Admission Requirements:
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Provisional or Registered Psychologist number.
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Completed the Core Competencies for Formal Clinical Assessment course, or an equivalent course that can be submitted for approval.
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With approved prerequisites, you can move straight into the applied program. Contact us to see if your previous experience and course completion qualifies for direct access to the applied programs.
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Assumed familiarity with the assessment measures covered in the prerequisite work, including Wechsler tools, the PAI, and the MCMI.
This course does not certify or authorize independent autism or ADHD assessment and does not replace supervised practice through appropriate professional channels. The skills developed here apply across all clinical contexts, and students are expected to pursue supervised practice through their professional college before conducting neurodevelopmental assessments independently.
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What's Included:
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Six recorded lectures each with a corresponding quiz/knowledge check, completed before each seminar
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Six weekly live evening seminars from July 15 to August 19, 2026
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Hands-on practice: accessibility adaptation, developmental history, battery planning, report language
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Take-home, applicable examples from every session
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A lived-experience panel in the final seminar
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Hands-on practice with the CAT-Q, DIVA-5, Vineland-3, and ABAS-3, plus discussion of other measures including the ADOS-2
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A Practice Change Plan that builds on your professional practice manual
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Certificate of Completion for 40 continuing education hours
Meet Your Instructor
Sabrina Brady, R.Psych., MC
Sabrina Brady is a Registered Psychologist with over 20 years of experience across community, forensic, post-secondary, and private practice settings. Her work centers on people whose stories are often overlooked or misunderstood, with advanced training in neurodiversity, trauma, personality, sexual health, and forensics, and assessment experience spanning autism, ADHD, psycho-educational, and functional capacity work. Named to Edify's Top 40 Under 40 in 2025 for building spaces of acceptance and connection, she teaches assessment as a collaborative and affirming process that keeps the focus on the person behind the referral.
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Domain 03
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Domain 04
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Domain 07
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Domain 08
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Why This Course Exists
Neurodivergent clients are still being misformulated, misdiagnosed, or missed completely.
This course rebuilds the assessment process from the referral question forward, for clients of any age. You will learn to gather valid developmental history without childhood records, screen directly for masking, plan a battery driven by the clinical question rather than habit, and write formulations that lead with conclusions and connect to real recommendations.
It draws on current evidence, lived-experience perspectives, and applied clinical practice, and is the applied-practice course of the Formal Clinical Assessment Certificate.
66%
of autistic adults report lifetime suicidal ideation, a clinical priority directly tied to missed identification and sustained camouflaging (Cassidy et al., 2018).
50-70%
co-occurrence of ADHD and autism. Comorbidity is the clinical norm, not the exception, which is why differential formulation is built in from the start (Hours et al., 2022; Rong et al., 2021)