This is a presentation I did for my colleagues about assessment and multiple special needs. Since then, there are even more ways to approach assessment of students with multiple and complex needs. I'll be preparing an update in the future!
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Alternative Assessment Tools for Students with Complex Disabilities
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12. Alternative Assessment Tools for Students with Complex Disabilities A COLLABORATIVE TEAM APPROACH School OT School PT E.C. Teacher Parents Extended Family CAP worker Caregivers Regular Ed Special Area CTE Admin. Speech/ Language Pathologist School Psychologist Medical and Related Health Student Classroom/School Home History
Problems with the “Test and Run” assembly line approach to evaluation for this population: Multiple people reviewing records, not all records are in the same spot, missing information might be temporarily with the teacher, stored in another file cabinet, in cumulative record, etc. No-one has the big picture, each person has a bit of information that the other’s might not have, ie, mom took student to the neurologist, the school nurse is aware of this, but the other team members might not get this information until later. Nurse might assume that the mother told the teacher.