The Focus Academy Assessment Suite

At The Focus Academy we have a range of assessments that measure many aspects of a cognitive profile.
Our assessments seek to identify those areas of strength, rationalise these in a personal, academic, workplace or career context, and identify any areas where support may be required, along with providing solutions via coaching or training, to strengthen areas where challenges may have been identified.
Our assessments can be used as additional evidence if seeking a private diagnosis.

Cognitive Skills Assessment

Our General Cognitive Assessment is a leading professional tool that helps measure general cognitive well-being in children aged 7+ as well as adults. The results of this assessment are useful for understanding the users cognitive state highlighting strengths & weaknesses, as well as physical, psychological and social well-being. It provides scores relating to attention, memory, reasoning, planning and coordination, compared to people of the same age and gender.

Risk Propensity

Decision-Making Behaviour Assessed - Safety behaviour is all about decisions.
Using a traditional survey to measure risk propensity has some inherent drawbacks compared to using an objective measurement tool, so a tool was developed so that it can accurately and reliably assess decision-making behaviour so that we can categorise between risk-seeking and risk averse decision making behaviours to determine the probability of loss to the probability of gain.

Psychological Fitness Index (PFI)

This is a screening instrument that screens and monitors the psychological fitness of an individual in order to promote safety behaviours and work performance, with both individual & group reporting, providing insights into:

  • Psychological distress symptoms

  • Burnout risk

  • Over-commitment risk

  • Distraction risk

  • Disengagement risk

  • Commitment risk

FOCUS

FOCUS is a computerised measurement of attentional control and is suitable for adults as well as children aged 6+. Attentional control is the ability to remain focused on goal-relevant stimuli and information in the presence of potentially interfering distractions and provides measurements of the following:

  • Consistency - the ability to focus and be attentive during a boring task

  • Performance - the performance of an individual in terms of being accurate and being on-time

  • Impulsivity - or being impulsive involves a tendency to act suddenly and without careful thought, reflection or consideration of the consequences.

  • Distraction - determining the impact of auditory & visual changes in the environment on the individual's performance.

Neurodiversity Profiler

Aimed at parents or guardians of a child or young person from the age of 7 to 16 years of age. Providing you with a picture of the child's strengths and challenges overall, and (where appropriate) provides recommendations for support relating to traits associated with neurodiverse conditions.
An instant personalised report with practical support and guidance is provided, ensuring that you can start supporting your child to maximising their strengths and minimise their challenges.

Neurodiversity in the Workplace

This assessment will allow you to better understand you or your employees Neurodiverse profile in a work context.
This assessment highlights strengths and challenges relating to the potential or current workplace in the context of traits associated with neurodiverse conditions.
By having these insights you will be provided with personalised guidance, practical tools and resources, dependent on your personal profile.

We also have assessments within the suite that are tailored to the following:

  • Driving - assesses the current state of cognitive abilities most involved in driving

  • Concentration - assesses the current state of attention-related cognitive abilities

  • Memory- assesses the current state of memory-related cognitive abilities

  • Coordination - assesses the current state of coordination-related cognitive abilities

  • Reading Comprehension

  • 55 & Over - evaluating the state of current mental capabilities relating to aging

  • Academic Assessment - looking at various cognitive abilities in relation to academic skills

Working in collaboration with Coetzer & Associates, as well as with Afriforte (PTY) Ltd, who have more than 30 years experience in HR specialising in Industrial Psychology & IR practices, and as commercial partners of WorkWell, The Research Unit for Economic and Management Sciences at the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus.