Assessing and Treating Developmental Disabilities Across the Lifespan

Catalog description

This course is designed so that students can develop a full understanding of various developmental disabilities and how they can impact an individual across the lifespan. Furthermore, students will develop the skills necessary for conducting and interpreting results from standardized assessments for individuals with developmental disabilities in order to design appropriate behavioral and educational treatments. This course will focus on a number of standardized instruments utilized in the field to assess individuals suspected of developmental disabilities. Students will evaluate these instruments in terms of validity, reliability, norms, ease of use, and utility. Also, students will be expected to become skilled in interpretation of evaluation reports, designing behavior analytic treatments, presenting results and treatment plans to other professionals and parents/caregivers, and developing parent and/or staff training goals and activities.