Assessment in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education

Catalog description

This course introduces the candidate to the different assessment and evaluation procedures used in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education including eligibility, goal and IFSP/IEP development and progress monitoring. An emphasis is on understanding the different types of assessments, their purposes, interpreting assessment results and communicating those results using family appropriate language. Candidates will collaborate with families to conduct a curriculum based assessment to gather child information, translate assessment results into child outcomes and/or goals, and plan for progress monitoring. Candidates will spend up to 25 hours observing young children from birth through K with disabilities and completing field based assignments.