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Assessment for Special Education Eligibility

Course: #398Level: Intermediate 1 Hour 21 Reviews

Assessment of speech-language skills for children referred for special education must marry federal requirements with clinical best practice. This course will review federal special education requirements associated with evaluation and identify additional requirements states and local school districts may generate. It will identify best practice regarding selection, administration and analysis of standardized assessments (e.g., review of normative population, use and abuse of subtests, interpretation of test results) . The course will conclude with discussion of use of intervention data and informal assessment strategies (e.g., observations, artifact review, speech and language sampling) to inform eligibility decisions.

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Learning Outcomes

  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to identify federal requirements associated with evaluation for special education.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to identify possible additions to federal requirements established by the state or the local school district.
  • checkmarkAfter this course, participants will be able to identify best practice in administering standardized assessments.
  • checkmarkfter this course, participants will be able to identify effective informal assessment.

Agenda

0-10 Minutes Review of federal requirements associated with evaluation for special education
10-20 Minutes Roles of states and localities in adding requirements to federal provisions
20-35 Minutes Review of best practice in administering standardized assessments
35-55 Minutes Review of informal assessments
55-60 Minutes Summary and Q & A

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Course participation information

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Full attendance is required, and the times you log in and out will be recorded and documented. If you log in to a live webinar late or if you log out early, you may not be able to earn CEU.

Passing an online exam and completing a course evaluation will be required to earn continuing education credit.

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On-demand courses include texts, video and audio recordings of live webinars, and multimedia formats. The exam and course evaluation for on-demand courses must be completed within 30 days of course registration.

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American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn.

Intermediate Level
0.1 ASHA CEUs


Speech-Language and Audiology Canada

Speech-Language and Audiology Canada

Clinically certified members of Speech-Language and Audiology Canada (SAC) can accumulate continuing education equivalents (CEEs) for their participation with SpeechPathology.com. One hour of coursework equals 1 CEE. All SAC members are encouraged to participate in on-going education.


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