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Comprehensive, Strengths-Based, User-Friendly Report Writing
What will I learn?
- The importance of comprehensive, strengths-based, and user-friendly reports
- A framework for writing reports that are comprehensive, strengths-based, and user-friendly
- How to use a testing matrix to ensure that your testing battery results in a comprehensive evaluation of each student
- How to self-evaluate your report writing to ensure that it is strengths-based and user-friendly
Includes:
- Notes style handouts of the presentation
- The Psyched Services Assessment Matrix which provides guidance for comprehensive evaluation planning
- The Psyched Services Report Writing Style Guide which provides relevant formatting and proofreading guidelines for psychoeducational reports to increase readability and user-friendliness
- The Psyched Services Key Components Checklist: Comprehensive, Strengths-Based, User-Friendly Report Writing which provides a checklist for ensuring that reports meet the standards for full and complete evaluation, inclusion of a student’s strengths, and adherence to the style guide
- The Psyched Services Implementation Guide: Comprehensive, Strengths-Based, User-Friendly Report Writing which provides implementation guidance for using these resources, as well as examples of inclusion of student strengths in the background, observations, body, summary, and recommendations sections of reports
- A de-identified sample comprehensive, strengths-based, user-friendly report
Mastering Mental Health Assessments: Understand the Why, When, and How to Effectively Support Student Needs
What will I learn?
- Current IDEA practices for mental health assessments
- Identify when a mental health assessment is necessary
- Best practices for mental health assessments and mental health supports for students in grades PK-12
Includes:
- Notes-style PowerPoint handout
- Fillable PDF designed to help you plan and track progress on all your mental health assessments
One Page Summary
What will I learn?
- Discover a method to present evaluation results in a simple, time-saving format that will make IEP meetings more productive
- How to take advantage of the One Page Summary tool to organize and present evaluation results using a strength-based approach
- Achieve greater success in IEP meetings with these invaluable tips for becoming a more impactful presenter
Includes:
- Notes-style PowerPoint handout
- One Page Summary guide with step-by-step instructions on how to use this powerful tool
- Two One Page Summary forms available in both English and Spanish that you'll be able to quickly edit, save, and share with your team at your next IEP meeting
Dyslexia Demystified
What will I learn?
- The definition of dyslexia and each dyslexia subtype
- Information to educate parents and teachers on common misconceptions about dyslexia
- Recommended test batteries to evaluate for dyslexia
- Research-based intervention recommendations for students with dyslexia
Includes:
- Notes-style PowerPoint handout
- A dyslexia evaluation guide that contains comprehensive lists of tests for each specific assessment area to help you streamline your next learning disability assessment battery
Evolving Best Practice for Assessments in a Pandemic-Altered Era
What will I learn?
- Ways that the pandemic and online learning have impacted students
- How to adjust your evaluation practices to yield reliable and informative results in the aftermath of a pandemic
Includes:
- Notes-style PowerPoint handout
- A comprehensive checklist for factors to consider when assessing students, while considering the effects of the pandemic on student performance.
Equitable Tests Yield Equitable Results
What will I learn?
- The fundamental bias present in many traditional cognitive assessments
- Best practices for assessing students from diverse cultural backgrounds and how to make your assessment practices more equitable
- Barriers to changing evaluation methods and how to overcome them
Includes:
- Notes-style PowerPoint handout
- Quick-reference guide to understanding inequality in assessment