Butterfly Psychology for Kids Perth is a psychology practice that provides psychological and educational assessments for children and adolescents.
Multiple parents describe Vanessa as warm and approachable, noting that she helped children feel comfortable during assessments, and several specifically praise the quality and thoroughness of her reports along with her clear explanations of findings. However, one reviewer (a local guide) had a notably negative experience, describing the practice as feeling overly process-focused and business-like rather than genuinely engaged with the child and family's needs. With three positive reviews and one critical one, experiences appear generally positive but not universally so.
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Butterfly Psychology for Kids Perth is a psychology practice that provides psychological and educational assessments for children and adolescents. Vanessa Gunton is a registered psychologist with AHPRA and member of MAPS, with over 25 years of experience providing psychological support for children, parents and teachers in Perth across many educational settings.
Targeted teaching and therapy to help children develop reading, writing and spelling skills, including support for dyslexia, language disorders and learning difficulties. Structured, evidence-based approaches build the foundations of literacy from the ground up.
Assesses writing difficulties and diagnoses dysgraphia through comprehensive educational and intellectual testing.
Evaluates mathematics learning difficulties and diagnoses dyscalculia using standardised assessments.
Identifies giftedness and advanced ability in children and adolescents, and examines suitability for academic extension and acceleration.
A structured evaluation by a psychologist or psychiatrist to determine whether ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is present. It typically includes questionnaires, clinical interviews, rating scales and sometimes cognitive testing, and results in recommendations for support and treatment.
Investigates intellectual ability, behaviour, academic achievement, learning difficulties, giftedness and ADHD symptoms.
Examines general intellectual ability and identifies areas of cognitive strength and weakness using WISC-V.
Examines response to intervention for literacy and numeracy difficulties to determine if a specific learning disorder diagnosis can be made.
Determines eligibility for special examination arrangements such as extra working time by assessing learning disorder diagnosis and functional impact.