Question

Which type of psychologist might administer an intelligence test to your 12-year-old child to determine if he or she should be in special education classes?

Answer 1

The type of psychologist that is responsible for administering an intelligence test a child, whether if he or she should be in a special education class is a school psychologist. It is because a school psychologist is the one responsible for managing students mentally in which a school psychologist is right for the job and by that, base on the scenario given above, the child fits the category, making him suitable to apply for a school psychologist to assess him if he is applicable for attending a regular school or not.

Answer 2

The correct answer is a school psychologist.

A school psychologist is a specific type of child psychologist that works in the educational system. Their job is to work with individual students or groups of students to help them with any emotional/behavioral problems, academic difficulties, disabilities, and so forth. They also work with teachers and parents to develop techniques to deal with specific home and classroom behavior that a student is displaying that might be seen as a problem. They are solely focused on the mental well being of the students. If they felt that a child might need to be placed in a special education class they would be the one administering such tests.