Autism | ADHD | Anxiety Disorders | Attachment Issues
Assessing children and adolescents is uniquely challenging. Presenting concerns often overlap, co-occur, or shift across contexts; parent, teacher and self-report accounts frequently diverge; and the landscape of available screening tools is broad but uneven in quality. This webinar equips clinicians working with young people with practical frameworks for when to screen, what to use, and how to interpret the results in real clinical practice.
🇦🇺 Tuesday 21 July at 10am AEST
🇺🇸 Monday 20 July at 8pm Eastern, 7pm Central
Presenters Dr Jane Wotherspoon and Dr David Hegarty will explore:
Autism | ADHD | Anxiety Disorders | Attachment Issues
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) | Vanderbilt ADHD Rating Scale | Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS) | Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) | Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 | Composite Caregiving Questionnaire (CCQ)
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
Dr Jane Wotherspoon is a Clinical and Educational & Developmental Psychologist with a background in psychological assessment across clinical and research settings. Her work focuses on understanding individual neurodevelopmental profiles through a collaborative assessment process, with an emphasis on supporting clients and families to develop a meaningful understanding of their own strengths and challenges.
Jane has particular interests in cognitive and academic assessment, and in supporting psychologists to deliver high-quality, accessible services. She is especially focused on approaches that make assessment findings usable and relevant to everyday contexts, including for children, families, and schools.
In her role with NovoPsych, Jane contributes to scale development and to the ethical and effective integration of technology into clinical practice, with a focus on supporting clinicians while maintaining the integrity and usefulness of assessment outcomes.
Dr David Hegarty is a Registered Psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with children, teachers, and families as both an educator and a school psychologist. His career has included roles as a teacher, academic coordinator, and school psychologist across many schools, as well as private child and adolescent practice. His postgraduate training at the University of Sydney, including a Master of Health Science in Child and Adolescent Psychology and a PhD in computerised adaptive cognitive training, bridges direct experience with young people and a deep technical grounding in measurement and statistics.
David has particular interests in the development and validation of psychometric tools, and in the statistical foundations that determine how confidently a score can inform clinical decisions. He is especially focused on helping clinicians interpret assessment data with young people so that findings translate into usable, evidence-based decisions.
In his role as Head of Psychometrics at NovoPsych, and as an Adjunct Professional Fellow at Southern Cross University, David oversees scale development and contributes to the statistical methods behind the platform’s assessment tools. His focus is on keeping the measures clinicians rely on grounded in rigorous science while remaining accessible, interpretable, and clinically useful.
