ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF YOUNG CHILDREN

Catalog description

A clinical experience of 50 clock hours where the candidate analyzes assessment procedures and diagnostic practices used to obtain information about the learning, and development of children, birth through kindergarten, with developmental and/or learning needs. Includes administering, interpreting and reporting test results, and formulating instructional objectives and subsequent learning programs. Develops an understanding of how information is obtained from quantitative/qualitative measures, and how teachers' experiences influence their abilities to interpret strengths and needs, derive instructional objectives, develop curriculum, and select appropriate teaching strategies. Fifty (50) clock hours of clinical experience is required.