How to Conduct Meaningful Assessments for Students with Disabilities

Comprehensive psycho-educational assessments are the cornerstone of any well-developed Individual Education Plans (IEP) and are essential for program planning.

However, conducting assessments that are legally defensible and meaningful for students with significant needs can be challenging.

Often, students with significant needs have difficulty participating in formal assessment measures and may even be deemed "untestable." This training will include strategies for how to gain relevant and meaningful information through a combination of formal and informal measures and the use of dynamic assessment.

Participants Will:

• Discuss the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and special education eligibility criteria for Intellectual Disability (ID)
• Learn how to conduct legally defensible assessments for students with ID that yield useful, meaningful information for goal writing and program planning
• Discuss formal and informal assessment measures to help providers develop a well-rounded assessment battery
• Learn strategies for dynamic assessment
• Learn how to explain ID and its implications to parents.

Target Audience:

• School Psychologist
• Speech-Language pathologists
• Special Education Teachers

Participants should bring a device to access presentation materials.

For questions regarding this event please contact Crystal Niderost, the SELPA Adminsitration Assistant at (707)262-4131 or Y25pZGVyb3N0IHwgbGFrZWNvZSAhIG9yZw==

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