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9780876288931

Special Educator's Complete Guide to 109 Diagnostic Tests : How to Select and Interpret Tests, Use Results in IEPs and Remediate Specific Difficulties

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  • ISBN13:

    9780876288931

  • ISBN10:

    087628893X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-03-01
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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List Price: $29.95

Summary

For anyone involved in the special education process, here is a comprehensive practical guide to the most frequently used and helpful tests for diagnosing suspected disabilities of all kings intellectual, perceptual, language, achievement, psychosocial and social maturity from the early childhood years through adolescence.

Author Biography

Dr. Rose Pierangelo has over 25 years of experience as a regular classroom teacher, school psychologist in the Herricks Public School system in New Hyde Park, NY, administrator of special education programs, full professor in the graduate special education department at Long Island University, private practitioner in psychology, member of committees on Special Education, evaluator for the New York State Education Department, director of a private clinic, and consultant to numerous private and public schools, PTA and SEPTA groups.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Assessment
1(10)
Preventive Measures Prior to Assessment
2(3)
Defining Assessment
5(1)
Purpose of Assessment
6(1)
Components of a Thorough Assessment
6(1)
How Students Are Identified for Assessment
7(1)
Assessment and Federal Law
7(2)
Parental Consent and the Assessment Process
9(2)
Methods of Gathering Information
11(20)
The Screening and Referral Process
12(9)
Referral Forms
12(3)
Rating Scales
15(2)
Observation Scales
17(4)
Child Study Teams/Pupil Personnel Teams
21(3)
Membership or the Pupil Personnel Team (PPT)
21(1)
Questions Considered by the Pupil Personnel Team
21(2)
Option of the Pupil Personnel Team
23(1)
Reviewing School Records
24(1)
Looking at the Student's Work
25(1)
Interviews
25(1)
Testing
26(1)
Selecting an Appropriate Testing Instrument
26(1)
New Outlooks on Assessment
27(4)
Ecological Assessment
27(1)
Direct Assessment
27(1)
Dynamic Assessment
28(1)
Task Analysis
28(1)
Outcome-Based Assessment
28(1)
Learning Styles Assessment
28(3)
The Wechsler Scales of Intelligence
31(18)
General Test Information
32(1)
Description of Test
32(1)
Subtest Information
32(2)
Scoring Information
34(3)
How to Determine Relative Process Strengths and Weaknesses on the Wechsler Scales
37(1)
Diagnostic Patterns on the Wechsler Scales
38(8)
How to Determine Modality or Channel Strengths and Weaknesses on the Wechsler Scales
46(1)
Other Forms of Analysis Using the Wechsler Scales
46(1)
Strengths of the Wechsler Scales
47(1)
Weaknesses of the Wechsler Scales
48(1)
Other Intellectual Assessment Measures
49(18)
How to Analyze a Student's Intellectual Profile Effectively
49(18)
Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale--Fourth Edition (SB:FE)
52(3)
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC): Mental Processing Scales
55(2)
Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT)
57(1)
Columbia Mental Maturity Scale (CMMS)
58(1)
McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA)
59(3)
Slosson Intelligence Test--Revised (SIT-R)
62(1)
Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (CTONI)
63(2)
Test of Nonverbal Intelligence--Third Edition (TONI-3)
65(1)
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT)
66(1)
Achievement Assessment Measures
67(64)
Reading Assessment
68(1)
Interpreting Reading Tests
68(1)
Oral Reading Assessment
68(2)
Reading Comprehension Assessment
70(1)
Word Recognition Skills Assessment
70(1)
Word Attack Skills Assessment
71(1)
Summary of Reading Assessment
71(20)
Gates-MacGinitie Silent Reading Test--Third Edition
73(2)
Gray Oral Reading Test--3 (GORT-3)
75(2)
Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty (DARD)
77(2)
Gates-McKillop-Horowitz Reading Diagnostic Test
79(2)
Gilmore Oral Reading Test
81(1)
Slosson Oral Reading Test-Revised (SORT-R)
82(1)
Spache Diagnostic Readings Scales (DRS)
83(1)
Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests--Revised (WRMT-R)
84(2)
Test of Reading Comprehension--Third Edition (TORC-3)
86(2)
Decoding Skills Test (DST)
88(2)
Nelson-Denny Reading Test (NDRT)
90(1)
Spelling Assessment
91(1)
Interpreting Spelling Tests
91(1)
Questions prior to Assessment
91(1)
Information Obtained from the Teacher Prior to Assessment
91(5)
The Spellmaster Assessment and Teaching System
94(1)
Test of Written Spelling--3 (TWS-3)
95(1)
Written Language Assessment
96(1)
Interpreting Written Composition
96(1)
Components of Writing
97(1)
Interpreting handwriting
97(11)
Denver Handwriting Analysis (DHA)
99(2)
The Picture Story Language Test (PSLT)
101(1)
Test of Early Written Language--2 (TEWL-2)
102(2)
Test of Written Language--2 (TOWL-2)
104(2)
Test of Written Language--3 (TOWL-3)
106(1)
Written Language Assessment (WLA)
107(1)
Arithmetic/Mathematics Assessment
108(1)
Interpreting Arithmetic/Mathematics Tests
108(10)
Key Math Diagnostic Arithmetic Test--Revised (Key Math-R)
111(2)
Test of Early Mathematics Ability--2 (TEMA-2)
113(1)
Test of Mathematical Abilities--2 (TOMA-2)
114(2)
The Steenburgen Diagnostic-Prescriptive Math Program and Quick Math Screening Test (Steenburgen)
116(1)
Enright Diagnostic Inventory of Basic Arithmetic Skills (Enright)
117(1)
Comprehensive Achievement Assessment
118(13)
Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Basic Skills
119(2)
Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (KTEA)
121(1)
Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Revised (PIAT-R)
122(2)
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT)
124(2)
Wide Range Achievement Test--3 (WRAT-3)
126(2)
Test of Academic Achievement Skills--Reading, Arithmetic, Spelling, and Listening Comprehension (TAAS-RASLC)
128(1)
Norris Educational Achievement Test (NEAT)
129(2)
Perceptual Measures
131(32)
The Learning Process
131(2)
Objectives of Perceptual Evaluation
133(1)
Visual Perception Assessment
134(1)
Diagnostic Symptoms for Visual Perception Disabilities
134(8)
Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration--Fourth Edition (VMI-4)
136(1)
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test (BVMGT)
137(2)
Marianne Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP)
139(2)
Motor Free Perceptual Test--Revised (MVPT-R)
141(1)
Auditory Perception Assessment
142(1)
Diagnostic Symptoms for Auditory Perceptual Disabilities
142(6)
Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination (GFW)
144(1)
Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test (LACT)
145(1)
Test of Auditory Perceptual Skills--Revised (TAPS-R)
146(1)
Wepman Test of Auditory Discrimination--Second Edition (ADT-2)
147(1)
Comprehensive Assessment of Perceptual Abilities
148(15)
Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency
149(2)
Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitudes--Fourth Edition (DTLA-4)
151(3)
Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA)
154(2)
Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery-Revised (WJ-R)
156(4)
Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD)
160(1)
Slingerland Screening Tests for Identifying Children with Specific Language Disability
161(2)
An Overview of Language, Psychological & Social, and Adaptive Measures
163(40)
Speech and Language Assessment
164(1)
Interpreting Speech and Language Tests
165(1)
Developmental Milestones
165(16)
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--III (PPVT-III)
168(1)
Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language--Revised (TACL-R)
169(1)
Boehm Test of Basic Concepts--Revised (BTBC-R)
170(1)
Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test (CREVT)
171(1)
Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation
172(1)
Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills (K-Seals)
173(1)
Test of Adolescent and Adult Language--Third Edition (TOAL-3)
174(2)
Test of Early Language Development--Second Edition (TELD-2)
176(1)
Test of Language Development--Primary 2 (TOLD-P:2)
177(2)
Test of Language Development--Intermediate 2 (TOLD-I:2)
179(2)
Psychological and Social Assessment
181(1)
Behavioral, Emotion, and Social Development
181(14)
Children's Apperception Test (CAT)
185(1)
Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (GHDT)
186(1)
Draw-A-Person: Screening Procedure for Emotional Disturbance (DAP:SPED)
187(1)
Rorschach Psychodiagnostic Test
188(1)
The Politte Sentence Completion Test (PSCT)
189(1)
Thematic Apperception Test for Children and Adults (TAT)
190(1)
Conner's Parent and Teacher Rating Scales (CPRS/CTRS)
191(2)
Kinetic-House-Tree-Person Drawings (K-H-T-P)
193(1)
Attention Deficit Disorders Evaluation Scale--Revised (ADDES)
194(1)
Adaptive Behavior Assessment
195(1)
Assessing Adaptive Behavior
195(8)
AAMR Adaptive Behavior Scale--Residential and Community--2 (ABS-RC-2)
196(1)
AAMR Adaptive Behavior Scale--School (ABS-S:2)
197(2)
The Adaptive Behavior Evaluation Scale--Revised (ABES-R)
199(1)
Developmental Assessment for the Severely Handicapped (DASH)
200(1)
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS)
201(1)
Light's Retention Scale (LRS)
202(1)
An Overview of Early Childhood, Hearing Impaired, Occupational & Physical Therapy, and Bilingual Tests
203(54)
Early Childhood Assessment
203(18)
Bayley Scales of Infant Development--Second Edition (BSID-II)
205(2)
Preschool Language Scale--3 (PLS-3)
207(2)
Developmental Profile II (DP-II)
209(1)
Metropolitan Readiness Tests--Sixth Edition (MRT-6)
210(1)
Boehm Test of Basic Concepts--preschool Version
211(1)
Bracken Basic Concept Scale (BBCS)
212(2)
The Preschool Evaluation Scales (PES)
214(1)
Degangi-Berk Test of Sensory Integration (TSI)
215(1)
Kindergarten Readiness Test (KRT)
216(1)
Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
217(2)
The Denver Developmental Screening Test--Revised (Denver II)
219(1)
The Battle Developmental Inventory (BDI)
220(1)
Hearing Assessment
221(1)
Causes of Hearing Impairment
221(1)
Assessment Measures
222(1)
Degrees of Hearing Impairment
223(13)
Auditory Perception Test for the Hearing Impaired (APT/HI)
225(1)
Carolina Picture Vocabulary Test for Deaf and Hearing Impaired (CVPT)
226(1)
Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude
227(2)
Leiter-R International Performance Scale
229(2)
Rhode Island Test of Language Structure (RITLS)
231(2)
Screening Instrument for Targeting Educational Risk (SIFTER)
233(1)
Test of Early Reading-Ability-2--Deaf or Hard of Hearing (TERA-2--D/HH)
234(2)
Occupational and Physical Therapy Assessment
236(1)
Assessment Areas
236(1)
The Therapist's Many Roles
237(10)
Milani-Comparetti Motor Development Test
240(1)
Miller Assessment for preschoolers (MAP)
241(1)
Quick Neurological Screening Test (QNST)
242(1)
Sensory Integration and Praxis Test (SIPT)
243(2)
Purdue Perceptual Motor Survey (PPM)
245(2)
Bilingual Assessment
247(1)
Dominant Language
248(1)
Referral of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
249(8)
ESL Literacy Scale (ESL)
250(1)
Language Proficiency Test (LPT)
251(1)
Matrix Analogies Test--Expanded Form (MAT-Expanded Form)
252(2)
Screening Test of Spanish Grammar
254(1)
System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA)
255(2)
Identification of Possible High-Risk Children
257(8)
Symptoms Versus Problems
257(4)
How Serious Problems Affect a Child's Behavior and Ability to Learn
257(3)
School Symptoms Exhibited by High-Risk Students
260(1)
How to Determine the Severity of a Child's Problem
261(1)
Avoidance Behavior Patterns
261(4)
Understanding a Student's Behavior During Testing
265(1)
Adjustment to the Testing Situation
265(1)
Reaction Time
266(1)
Nature of Responses
266(1)
Verbalizations
266(1)
Organizational Approach
266(1)
Adaptability
267(1)
Attitude
267

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