For families and schools across the Four Corners — academic and cognitive testing, interpreted together, providing you with results you can use to inform your child’s best educational path forward.
Anna Layden has been an educator in Durango, Colorado since 2005 — teaching in Montessori elementary, project-based middle, and traditional high school classrooms.
She's worked with students as a classroom teacher, a special education teacher, a social worker, and an academic diagnostician. She's worked alongside countless families as an educational advocate and ally.
Since 2020 she has been providing psychoeducational evaluations across the Four Corners area, for students ages six through twenty-four. As an educator invested in equity, Anna partners with community organizations to provide need-based scholarships.
We sit down and discuss. Together we decide whether testing is the right next step.
Academic and cognitive testing across two sessions, with records review and teacher input woven in.
Anna and the school psychologist score results together and prepare a unified, integrated report.
A 1.5-hour family meeting walks you through findings, diagnoses, recommendations, and next steps.
Most families start with a consultation. From there we recommend either a full independent evaluation or ongoing educational consulting - whichever fits your situation.
Service 01In partnership with a licensed school psychologist, we evaluate academic, cognitive, and social-emotional areas. Diagnoses lead to IEP or 504 plan recommendations, accommodations, and modifications you can take to your school.
Service 02Review of evaluation findings with schools or therapists, attendance at IEP/504 meetings, and follow-up calls or emails in excess of 15 minutes. Additional consults available after the evaluation.
The follow-up meeting and comprehensive report are always included in the package price.
Our daughter has had significant trouble learning to read since she was little. After years in various public school tiered interventions, our child continued to significantly struggle with reading. Her teachers assured us that she would catch up. When she got to 3rd grade and was still reading two grades behind, my husband and I decided to pursue an independent educational evaluation. We live in Pagosa Springs but luckily found Anna and Cara’sinformation online. When we reached out to Anna she responded right away and started asking questions and gathering information. To our surprise Anna and Cara were able to fit our child in for testing immediately. In our case, it was only 3 weeks from the first phone call to their final report was completed. Their assessment of our daughters’ situation was spot-on and very thorough. My husband and I felt they truly cared about our child and helped us navigate the public school system to determine the best path forward for her education. They were both very professional throughout the process, kind and patient with our kiddo, and we highly recommend them. To anyone who is considering an IEE with Anna and Cara: do it; it is worth every penny!
Anna and Rachel are exceptionally skilled, caring, and approachable professionals. Our daughter was completely at-ease during the entire psychoeducational evaluation process (and actually enjoyed it!), and the evaluation results provided the clarity and specific information we needed to set our daughter up for success in school. She is thriving in school this year, largely due to Anna and Rachel's support.
We have worked with Anna as well as Cara over the last year and a half with multiple evaluations. We have a son who was struggling in school, but it was difficult to pinpoint. She helped us navigate a better school option for him and provided us with tangible data to support the best path forward. Her experience in the classroom is extremely helpful and she has a great depth of the real world of education. We highly recommend Anna, Cara, and anyone in her team!
Initial consultations are $125/hr with no commitment to move forward.
