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School Transition Assessments

School Transition Assessments. Kalman Greenberg Paul Muccigrosso School Psychologists. What Does OPWDD Require?. Required Documents to Determine Eligibility

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School Transition Assessments

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  1. School Transition Assessments Kalman Greenberg Paul Muccigrosso School Psychologists

  2. What Does OPWDD Require? • Required Documents to Determine Eligibility • A psychological report including an assessment of intellectual functioning. If cognitively delayed include the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale. • A medical report including diagnostic findings to support a diagnosis other than mental retardation. • A social history or psychosocial report that shows that the person became disabled before 22 years of age.

  3. Psychological Tests • Stanford Binet V: http://www.riverpub.com/products/sb5/details.html • WAIS IV: http://www.pearsonassessments.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/Productdetail.htm?Pid=015-8980-808&Mode=summary • CTONI-2: http://pearsonassessments.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/Productdetail.htm?Pid=PAa19120&Mode=summary • Leiter-R: http://portal.wpspublish.com/portal/page?_pageid=53,114601&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL • If the student is non-verbal, OPWDD requires either the CTONI or the Leiter plus the performance section of an IQ test.

  4. Intelligence: What is it • We Don’t Know • Tests are based on recent psychological theories.

  5. Stanford Binet V Five Factors • Fluid Reasoning: Capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge (Cattell) • Knowledge • Quantitative Reasoning • Visual-Spatial Processing • Working Memory

  6. WAIS: 4 Indices • Verbal Comprehension • Perceptual Reasoning • Working Memory • Processing Speed

  7. CTONI-2 • Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, Second Edition • Analogical reasoning • Categorical classification • Sequential reasoning

  8. Leiter-R • Visualization and Reasoning Battery • Attention and Memory Battery

  9. Mental Retardation • The magic number 70. • Adaptive Functioning- 2 Standard Deviations below the Mean.

  10. Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Second Edition (Vineland-II)

  11. Name: NYC ID #: Date of Birth: CSE Case #: Date of Interview: Language of Evaluation: Age: Examiner: Respondent: School: Program: Home Address: Telephone (c): Reason for Referral Family Constellation Birth and Medical History Developmental History Educational History Parental View of Current School Functioning Student’s Current Behavior At Home and In the Community Parental Attitude Regarding Present Program

  12. FBA • http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/District75/Departments/PBS/pbs_forms.htm •  Frequency Chart • ABC Chart Checklist • FBA Summary 2010 • Behavior Plan

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