One Santa Monica evaluation, accepted everywhere it counts.
When something feels off with your child, you want two things: a clear answer, and a plan you can act on. Dr. Anna Levi gives Santa Monica families both. More than twenty years and over 8,750 evaluations stand behind a single assessment that insurance, schools, Social Security, and the Regional Center all accept, so your child gets what they qualify for: classroom support through an IEP or 504 plan, therapy, one-on-one help like ABA. Started early, that support is often what separates a child who keeps struggling from one who's catching up, at school and at home.
One assessment, four systems that honor it.
An evaluation earns its keep through what it unlocks, not the pages it fills. Dr. Levi writes hers to the standard each of California's four major support systems accepts on its own, so one report works at every desk and your family is never restarting the process.
Regional Centers
For a Santa Monica child whose results show a qualifying developmental disability like autism or an intellectual disability, Westside Regional Center funds hundreds of covered hours of ABA, speech, and occupational therapy, without the long assessment waitlist.
Health Insurance
The documentation your insurer needs before it will authorize covered therapies and ongoing care.
School Districts
The basis for an IEP or 504 plan in Santa Monica-Malibu Unified, so the classroom supports your child instead of stretching them.
Social Security
The evidence Social Security looks for before approving disability benefits for a child who qualifies.
A report is only as good as what it unlocks. Most private testing isn't accepted by these systems directly, so families pay to test twice. Dr. Levi's is honored by all four.
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Why it holds up at every desk.
Systems accept a report when they recognize it as independent and rigorous. Dr. Levi spent more than twenty years inside those systems, under contract with Regional Centers, insurers, and Westside districts, so she knows the precise criteria each one applies and builds every report to clear them on the first read.
Speed counts most once a child qualifies for serious services, because every month spent re-testing or bouncing between agencies is a month out of the window when support does the most. One report that every system honors removes that delay.
What you pay covers the evaluation and nothing else. No finding is baked in; the diagnosis follows the data, measured against every score and observation, so the result stays as honest as we can make it.
What the evaluation actually hands you.
Parents rarely call wanting a label. They call because something is unclear and they need to know what it is and what to do about it. The evaluation is built to answer exactly that: not a number on a page, but a plain-language read on your child and a next step you can take Monday morning.
For some kids that means a diagnosis and a support plan. For others it is the reassuring news that they are bright and capable and only need a hand in a narrow area. The common thread is that you walk out certain instead of guessing.
Whatever the finding, you leave with a usable plan and a clear map of what your child qualifies for.
What to expect.
Start with a free call
Ten minutes on the phone with Dr. Levi. You describe what is worrying you, and she tells you straight whether an evaluation is even warranted and what it would entail. No obligation.
Come in for testing
It looks like games and puzzles to your child, which is the point: kids show their true ability when they are relaxed, not on guard. Underneath, these are the same rigorously validated instruments the field relies on. One in-person visit, usually booked within five business days of your call.
Sit down for the findings
About a week and a half later, after Dr. Levi has done the close analysis that makes a report defensible anywhere, you meet to walk through it in plain English and leave with a concrete plan and a list of what your child now qualifies for.
The most experienced read you can get, on a free call.
More than 8,750 evaluations and twenty-plus years stand behind that first ten-minute conversation. It costs nothing and tells you whether testing is worth doing for your child.
Book a Free 10-Min ConsultQuestions Santa Monica families ask.
What does an evaluation cost?
There is no flat sticker price, because the right battery of tests depends on your child. You will get a real figure on the free 10-minute call once we hear what is going on. Whatever it comes to, the fee buys the evaluation itself, not a predetermined answer.
How soon will we have answers?
Fast. The first visit usually lands within five business days of your call. After that, Dr. Levi takes about a week and a half to do the analysis that lets the report stand up with insurers, schools, Social Security, and the Regional Center, and roughly ten days post-testing you sit down to a finished plan.
Do you take insurance?
The assessment is paid out of pocket, but we give you an itemized superbill, and many PPO plans pay back a chunk of it. The bigger return is downstream: a report insurers, schools, Social Security, and the Regional Center will all act on when your child needs services.
Which Regional Center covers Santa Monica?
Santa Monica is served by Westside Regional Center. Under California's Lanterman Act, a child with a qualifying developmental disability has a lifelong right to free services there, including therapy, in-home support, and day programs.
The catch is the wait, often six to ten months just to be tested through the state, which only screens for developmental disabilities. A private evaluation skips the line, and Dr. Levi’s report is written to be accepted when you bring it in. Our guide to Regional Center funding explains the funding side.
Will Santa Monica-Malibu Unified accept the report?
Yes. Dr. Levi's evaluation is written to the standard districts rely on, so it serves as the basis for an IEP or 504 plan in Santa Monica-Malibu Unified and neighboring districts. That's where classroom accommodations come from, and the sooner the plan is in place, the more your child gets from the school year.
What if the result is a surprise?
Understandable, and common. A diagnosis lives on a spectrum rather than a yes-or-no switch, and nobody who has done this honestly for two decades will claim mistakes are impossible. What stands behind every call we make is documented reasoning and careful observation. And a hard answer still opens real help in the years it matters most, where kids build skills and frequently close the gap. The costly move is waiting.
Will my child be stressed by it?
No. The whole session is designed to feel like play. The tasks read as games even though they are the same validated tools used in serious evaluations, and we pause for a break the moment a child needs one. Thousands of kids of every disposition have sat through it just fine.
Where are you, and how far is it from Santa Monica?
Our closest office is in Pico-Robertson, about 15 minutes east on the 10, and we also have a North Hollywood location. Assessments are in person, and we offer telehealth for therapy. Tell us where you are on the call and we'll book whichever is closer.
Serving Santa Monica and the Westside.
Dr. Levi also works with families across the Westside and the Valley:
Wondering whether your child needs an evaluation?
That's exactly what the free call is for. Ten minutes with Dr. Levi, no pressure, and you'll know whether testing is the right next step.
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