Comprehensive Evaluations

Case Reports for Psychologists, Diagnosticians, and Special Educators

Nancy Mather, Lynne E. Jaffe

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780470617915
• eBook ISBN: 9780470881965
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Research & Methodology in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

An invaluable collection of sample case reports from experts in child and adolescent assessment

With contributions from authorities in the fields of psychology and special education-including Dawn Flanagan, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, Randy Kamphaus, Nadeen Kaufman, George McCloskey, Jack Naglieri, Cecil Reynolds, and Gale Roid— Comprehensive Evaluations provides over fifty sample case reports to help you draft carefully planned, goal-directed, and comprehensive evaluations that clearly explain the reasons for a student's school-related difficulties, from preschool to postsecondary level.

A wellspring of information for educational professionals, Comprehensive Evaluations provides models for writing diagnostic reports to accompany the tests most frequently administered in the evaluation of children, adolescents, and adults, including the BASC-2, KABC-II, WAIS-IV, WISC-IV, and WJ III. The reports reflect various disciplines within psychology and education, different theoretical perspectives and paradigms, and span a broad spectrum of disabilities.

The diagnostic reports found within Comprehensive Evaluations will help:

• Expand your familiarity with widely used test instruments
  
  

• Enhance your understanding of the interpretation of test scores
  
  

• Improve your ability to tailor written reports to the purposes of the evaluation
  
  

• Translate assessment results into meaningful treatment recommendations
  
  

• Recognize the differences in what evaluators from various school districts, agencies, and private practices consider to be a comprehensive evaluation
  
  

• Appreciate how your theoretical perspective and choice of tests can influence diagnostic conclusions
  
  

• Determine a report writing style that meets your needs
  
  

Comprehensive Evaluations deftly illustrates how thorough assessments help empirically pinpoint the reasons a student is struggling in school, which then allows an evaluator to select the most appropriate accommodations and interventions to help the student succeed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Epigraph
• Introduction
• Case 1: Assessment of Individuals with Autism: Procedures and Pitfalls
• Case 2: Neuropsychological Evaluation of a Young Child with a Seizure Disorder
• Case 3: Language Assessment of a Sibling of a Child with Autism
• Case 4: Cognitive and Achievement Correlates of Language Disorders
• Case 5: Comorbidity and Cumulative Effects of Inattention, Poor Emotional Control, and Language Problemson Academic Achievement in Early Childhood
• Case 6: How a Weakness in Attention Can Mask True Learning Capabilities and Achievement Gains
• Case 7: Associative Memory Disorder
• Case 8: Evaluation of a Bilingual Student witha History of Language Delay
• Case 9: Twice-Exceptional
• Case 10: An Elementary School Student with a Specific Learning Disability in Reading
• Case 11: Using a Pattern of Strengths and Weaknesses Approach in a Complex Case
• Case 12: Learning Is the Best Therapy
• Case 13: Difference Versus Disorder
• Case 14: Using the PASS Theory to Uncover Disorders in Basic Psychological Processes
• Case 15: Neuropsychological Evaluation of aChild with a Brain Injury at Birth
• Case 16: Missing Out on Early Intervention
• Case 17: Learning Disabilities and Mathematics
• Case 18: The Cognitive Assessment System and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV in a Neuropsychological Context
• Case 19: Reestablishing Eligibility and Reevaluation Post Natural Disaster
• Case 20: Psychoeducational Assessment of a Child with High-Functioning Autism Using a Problem-Solving Approach
• Case 21: RTI Data and Cognitive Assessment Are Both Useful for SLD Identification and Intervention Planning
• Case 22: Specific Learning Disability Report
• Case 23: Integrating RTI with an Individual Comprehensive Assessment to Identify a Specific Learning Disability in Reading
• Case 24: Assessing a Child with a Nonspecific Pervasive Development Disorder
• Case 25: Difficulty Versus Disability?
• Case 26: Psychoeducational Assessment of a Student with a Visual Impairment Using the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement – Braille Adaptation
• Case 27: Differential Diagnosis
• Case 28: The Heterogeneity and Complexities of Children with Developmental Delays
• Case 29: Differential Diagnosis
• Case 30: Integration of Post-Referral Progress Monitoring Data in a Specific Learning Disability Evaluation
• Case 31: Sweet Child (But Only When Not in School)
• Case 32: Psychoeducational Evaluation of a Bilingual Student with a Visual Impairment
• Case 33: Memory and Processing Assessments
• Case 34: Oral and Written Language Influences on Academic and Social Functioning
• Case 35: Process Assessment of the Learner, 2nd Edition (PAL-II)
• Case 36: Math Problem Solving
• Case 37: “Nonverbal” Learning Disabilities or Asperger’s Syndrome?
• Case 38: Applying a Multilevel Interpretive Framework with an Emphasis on the Assessment of Executive Functions
• Case 39: The Assessment of “Nonverbal” Learning Disabilities
• Case 40: Actively Involving an Adolescent in the Evaluation Process from Intake to Feedback
• Case 41: A Comprehensive Evaluation of a High School Student
• Case 42: ADHD: To Be or Not to Be?
• Case 43: Assessing an Adolescent English Language Learner
• Case 44: Neuropsychological Evaluation of an Adolescent with Moderate Mental Retardation
• Case 45: The Impact of Slow Processing Speed on Performance
• Case 46: Falling Through the Cracks
• Case 47: A Multiple Measures Approach to Assessing a Student Who Is Deaf
• Case 48: Comprehensive Assessment of an Attention-Based Learning Problem
• Case 49: Psychoeducational Assessment of a Juvenile Offender in a Correctional Setting
• Case 50: When the Child with Specific Learning Disabilities Grows Up
• Case 51: A Comprehensive Evaluation of a High-Functioning Secondary Student with Dyslexia
• Case 52: Use of Nonverbal Cognitive Assessment to Distinguish Learning Disabilities from Second Language Learning Difficulties
• Case 53: The Enduring Nature of Specific Learning Disability
• Case 54: Comprehensive Evaluation of a Hard of Hearing High School Student in a Rural Setting
• Case 55: Assessment of a Cognitively Capable Student Who Is Struggling to Succeed in College
• Case 56: Making the Most of One's Strengths: When Verbal Intelligence and Dedication to Succeed Overcome Late Identification
• Case 57: Use of the Stanford-Binet Fifth Edition in a Brain Injury Case
• Case 58: Psychoeducational Evaluation of an Adult for LD and ADHD
• Appendix A: Table of Reports
• Appendix B: Guidelines for Writing Assessment Reports
• Appendix C: Test Acronyms
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