Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions puts at your fingertips the successful instructional techniques and materials necessary for accurate and effective use of evidence-based interventions. Written by Barbara Wendling and Nancy Mather, two experts in educational assessment and intervention, this intervention-oriented reference presents clear descriptions of research-based interventions in the areas of: phonological awareness and beginning reading phonics; phonics and sight word instruction; reading fluency; vocabulary and reading comprehension; spelling, handwriting, and written expression; basic math skills; and math problem-solving.

Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mather, Nancy

Wendling, Barbara J.

Psychology & Counseling

wiley

A hands-on guide for anyone who teaches writing to students with learning disabilities This valuable resource helps teachers who want to sharpen their skills in analyzing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities. The classroom-tested, research-proven strategies offered in this book work with all struggling students who have difficulties with writing-even those who have not been classified as learning disabled. The book offers a review of basic skills-spelling, punctuation, and capitalization-and includes instructional strategies to help children who struggle with these basics. The authors provide numerous approaches for enhancing student performance in written expression. They explore the most common reasons students are reluctant to write and offer helpful suggestions for motivating them. Includes a much-needed guide for teaching and assessing writing skills with children with learning disabilities <ul>
<li>Contains strategies for working with all students that struggle with writing</li> <li>Offers classroom-tested strategies, helpful information, 100+ writing samples with guidelines for analysis, and handy progress-monitoring charts</li> <li>Includes ideas for motivating reluctant writers</li> <li>Mather is an expert in the field of learning disabilities and is the best-selling author of Essentials of Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement Assessment
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Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities

Education & Teaching

Roberts, Rhia

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass

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: <ul>
<li> Expand your familiarity with widely used test instruments </li> <li> Enhance your understanding of the interpretation of test scores </li> <li> Improve your ability to tailor written reports to the purposes of the evaluation </li> <li> Translate assessment results into meaningful treatment recommendations </li> <li> Recognize the differences in what evaluators from various school districts, agencies, and private practices consider to be a comprehensive evaluation </li> <li> Appreciate how your theoretical perspective and choice of tests can influence diagnostic conclusions </li> <li> Determine a report writing style that meets your needs </li> </ul>
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.

Comprehensive Evaluations: Case Reports for Psychologists, Diagnosticians, and Special Educators

Jaffe, Lynne E.

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to effectively understand, assess, and treat individuals struggling with dyslexia Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention provides practical, step-by-step information on accurately identifying, assessing, and using evidence-based interventions with individuals with dyslexia. Addressing the components that need to be considered in the assessment of dyslexia―both cognitive and academic―this book includes descriptions of the various tests used in a comprehensive dyslexia assessment along with detailed, evidence-based interventions that professionals and parents can use to help individuals struggling with dyslexia. Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. Providing an in-depth look at dyslexia, this straightforward book presents information that will prepare school psychologists, neuropsychologists, educational diagnosticians, special education teachers, as well as general education teachers, to recognize, assess, and provide effective treatment programs for dyslexia. The book is also a good resource for parents who are helping a child with dyslexia. <ul>
<li>A practical guide to understanding, assessing, and helping individuals who have dyslexia</li> <li>Expert advice and tips throughout</li> <li>Conveniently formatted for rapid reference</li> </ul>
Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series: Essentials of Assessment Report Writing Essentials of School Neuropsychological Assessment Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions Essentials of Response to Intervention Essentials of Processing Assessment Essentials of Conners Behavior Assessments Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Second Edition Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment, Second Edition

Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention

The intent of this comprehensive guide is to help examiners who use the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery Revised (WJ-R; Woodcock &amp; Johnson, 1989) in school settings to translate these test results into meaningful information for program development. The guide is organized into several chapters. The first chapter presents a brief overview of the diagnostic/prescriptive process. The second chapter describes the WJ-R tests and clusters and the wide range of interpretive information available. Subsequent chapters directly address performance in the four curricular areas assessed by the WJ-R Tests of Achievement: reading, written language, knowledge and mathematics. The last chapter addresses the relationship between the WJ-R Tests of Cognitive Ability and the Tests of Achievement. Relevant research is presented, and specific modifications are suggested for students with low performance in a cognitive area.

An Instructional Guide to the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery--Revised

The purpose of this book is to help educators increase their proficiency in analyzing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities. The text is organized into nine chapters. The first is the introductory chapter, the second provides a review of the various components of written language and the types of difficulties that students may have with handwriting, spelling, usage, vocabulary and text structure. The third chapter provides an overview of the writing process approach. The fourth chapter reviews the legal protections and various accommodations to which students are entitled. Chapters five, six and seven contain summaries of instructional strategies that may be used to enhance student performance in the areas of handwriting, basic skills and written expression. The eighth chapter presents analyses of writing samples from students in first-through eighth-grade levels that are reviewed within a diagnostic-prescriptive format. Chapter nine contains writing samples with guided questions that can be used for independent study, as assignments, or for in-class discussions.

Informal Assessment and Instruction in Written Language: A Practitioner's Guide for Students with Learning Disabilities

Reference

This bestselling book is the ultimate resource for users of the WJ-R. The first section is comprised of a variety of recommendations for cognitive, academic, behavioral and social interventions. The second section is intended to help translate the identified areas of need into behavioral objectives for planning instruction and developing the individual educational plan. The third section presents case studies that exemplify the use of the WJ-R in educational and clinical settings with clients from preschool to age 86. The fourth section, the appendix, contains short summaries of interventions and remedial techniques that were referred to in the recommendations.

Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery--Revised: Recommendations and Reports

Help your child succeed! If your child is falling behind in school, you know what heartacheis --watching the struggle, feeling the frustration, yearning tohelp --but what can you do? You can do a lot! In Overcoming Underachieving two nationallyrecognized experts in children's school problems show you how tobecome your child's advocate, coach, and guide through theeducational process. Using numerous case examples, they help youpinpoint your child's unique learning patterns and the problemsthat interfere with learning, behavior, and achievement. This information-packed book provides dozens of creative,parent-tested tools to help your child overcome difficulties withreading, math, handwriting, study skills, memorization, attentionspan, and many other problems that affect school success. With thehelp of Overcoming Underachieving, you can: * Learn proven methods of assessing your child's patterns oflearning and behaving * Describe learning and behavior problems clearly to teachers andother educators * Develop strategies that use strengths to overcome weaknesses * Set goals your child really can achieve * Find out how to improve your child's behavior andself-esteem Emotional support is important, but you can give your son ordaughter even more. Find out how in Overcoming Underachieving.

Overcoming Underachieving: An Action Guide to Helping Your Child Succeed in School

Goldstein, Sam

Business & Money

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the WJ IIITM The most widely used comprehensive assessment test-the Woodcock-Johnson-has been newly separated into two distinct tests: Achievement and Cognitive Abilities. The WJ III(TM) Tests of Achievement include reading, mathematics, written language, and knowledge tests. To use these tests properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret them. Cowritten by the creator of the Woodcock-Johnson and a coauthor of the WJ III(TM) Tests of Achievement, Essentials of WJ III(TM) Tests of Achievement Assessment is that source. Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of major psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. Essentials of WJ III(TM) Tests of Achievement Assessment is the only book to provide state-of-the-art guidelines to the Achievement portion of the WJ III(TM), with comprehensive instruction on test administration, scoring, and interpretation. The authors also offer expert assessment of the tests' relative strengths and weaknesses, valuable advice on their clinical applications, and several illuminating case studies. This book complements Essentials of WJ III(TM) Cognitive Abilities Assessment (Wiley), also cowritten by Dr. Woodcock. Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series: Essentials of WJ III(TM) Cognitive Abilities Assessment Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Techniques Assessment Essentials of Individual Achievement Assessment Essentials of NEPSY Assessment Essentials of WISC-III and WPPSI-R Assessment Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment Essentials of MMPI-A(TM) Assessment Essentials of Cognitive Assessment with KAIT and Other Kaufman Measures For a complete list of books in our Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, visit us on the Web at: www.essentials.wiley.com

Essentials of WJ III Tests of Achievement Assessment

Instructive guide to preparing informative and accurate assessment reports for a variety of individuals and settings Assessment reports are central to the diagnostic process and are used to inform parents, clients, and clinicians, among others, about academic problems, personality functioning, neuropsychological strengths and weaknesses, behavioral problems, and the like. Essentials of Assessment Report Writing provides handy, quick-reference information, using the popular Essentials format, for preparing effective assessment reports. This book is designed to help busy mental health professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to write effective psychological assessment reports. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. This practical guide focuses on efficiently and effectively communicating referral and background information, appearance and behavioral observations, test results and interpretation, summary and diagnostic impressions, and treatment recommendations. The authors provide examples of both good and bad case report writing and highlight ethical issues and topics relevant to presenting feedback. Essentials of Assessment Report Writing is the only pocket reference illustrating how to prepare an effective assessment report.

Essentials of Assessment Report Writing

Kaufman, Alan S.

Kaufman, Nadeen L.

Mental Health

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

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