Educational Diagnosticians

Latest Episodes:

Identification of SLD: What Were They Thinking? | Nazzie Pater-Rov May 10, 2024

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Nazzie provides a summary of the book: Identification of Learning Disabilities from Research to Practice, edited by Bradley, Danielson, and Hallahan (2001), which is a compilation of 9 white papers that resulted from the LD Summit of 2001 and led to the reauthorization of IDEA in 2004. She also shares a summary of email conversations with Jim Walsh regarding WBFWR (Way Behind For Whatever Reason), in an attempt to understand the context of his reference to that initialism.

Helping Kids Be Understood: Assessing Social Skills that Matter | Steve Elliott May 03, 2024

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Dr. Steve Elliott is one of the authors of the Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS). Check out free resources on his website: https://ssiscolab.com/. He also shares that https://developingchild.harvard.edu/ describes the impact of stress for young children. Elizabeth Shanley also joins to tell us about free training resources from Pearson related to the SSIS. Use this link to get to one of those presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fujeO-QhMOA.

Assessment of Dyslexia in Kindergarten? | Candace Vielma and Valencia Ashley Apr 26, 2024

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For how long do students need to be exposed to tier 1 instruction before an assessment is appropriate? What tools can we use to test children in kindergarten? What should we be looking for in our evaluations? These are all hard questions that diagnosticians on Clubhouse attempt to answer.

Working on the Rewrite: CBMs for Writing | John Romig Apr 19, 2024

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Dr. Romig shares the research behind validating the best CBM variables for reliably assessing writing.

Use this link to read one of his journal articles summarizing the reliability of various variables of writing CBM.

He also mentions the 6 +1 rubric for measuring writing that can be reached through this link.

Let's Use Everything In the Book to Help Kids Read | David Kilpatrick Apr 12, 2024

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Candace Vielma interviews Dr. Kilpatrick about how understanding how kids learn to read helps us to be better evaluators of reading.

For a copy of Dr. Kilpatrick's book: Use this link.

For his PAST test, use this link.

Here Comes the Judge: Defending Your FIE in Court | Robert Lackey Apr 05, 2024

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We all fear the day we have to defend our FIE in court, but Dr. Lackey helps us to keep perspective by giving us things to consider and be confident in our conclusions.

Times, They are a Changin': Revisions to the Dyslexia Handbook | Nazzie Pater-Rov with Aimee Seaberry and others on Clubhouse Feb 23, 2024

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Nazzie summarizes for the group both proposals for items removed and added to the Texas Dyslexia handbook. Aimee Seaberry also adds a summary of the Dyslexia Academies expected to be provided by TEA. Others also joined to comment. Thanks to Lori Melton for offering the perspective of a dyslexia therapist as well.

See this link for the text of the proposed handbook.

What Does the "Specific" Mean in Specific Learning Disability? | Nazzie Pater-Rov with Others on Clubhouse Feb 16, 2024

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The "Specific" in Specific Learning Disability can be confusing. A number of articles attempt to address this topic. Diagnosticians on Clubhouse examine articles by Mather (2023), Pennington (2015), Wadsworth et al. (2010), and Peterson et al. (2021) are reviewed to explore this term.

Citing Research in Your FIE | Nazzie Pater-Rov with Amy Smith Feb 09, 2024

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Citing research in our FIEs can make us look more professional, help us learn about the research behind the assessments we choose, and support our interpretation with evidence. The tool mentioned in this episode can be accessed through this link. Check back by clicking on the link in the future for updates to the link.

Hey! What's Goin' On? Assessment: Hope for a Destination | Jim Ysseldyke & Amanda VanDerHeyden Feb 02, 2024

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Dr. Ysseldyke and Amanda VanDerHeyden share their vision for the role of evaluators in special education. Together they wrote the 14th edition of Assessment In Special and Inclusive Education, the go-to textbook on evidence based assessment practices. They call on evaluators to make a paradigm shift away from a focus on IQ tests and towards a focus on assessment of the basic academic skills. This is a MUST HEAR, if you haven't listened live, or even if you did, you will want to listen again.

https://www.proedinc.com/Products/40006/assessment-in-special-and-inclusive-education14th-edition.aspx