Stephanie Gloria-Pray is a certified school psychologist and psychometrist at
Arizona Child Psychology, PLLC, and has over fifteen years of experience working
in the field of education in a variety of positions. Stephanie completed her
Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with Arizona State University. She later
completed her Educational Specialist degree in School Psychology at the University
of Arizona. Stephanie has worked as a School Psychologist since 2017. Stephanie
has experience working with children and adolescents from preschool age to
twelfth grade. Additionally, she has worked with a wide range of disabilities, twice
exceptional children as well as children and families from varying cultural
backgrounds.
As a school psychologist and psychometrist, I have experience with multiple
assessment tools needed to assess cognitive ability, academic achievement, social-
emotional and adaptive functioning. In working with children, it is important to
establish a healthy rapport. Children perform best when they feel comfortable and
safe. Standardized assessments provide significant and relevant data, however, I
believe it is equally important to understand the whole child to produce truly
meaningful data. Depending on the purpose of an evaluation, it is important to
consider informal data or information, whether this is gathered through parent
interviews or informal interviews with the child. This can help with not only
identifying a child’s areas of need, but most importantly their strengths.