SPECIAL EDUCATION BOOT CAMP / LIST OF COMMON ASSESSMENTS
Psychological: / Assesses your student’s pattern of strengths and weaknesses, their general intelligence, social skills, emotional development, and processing skills. / • Weschsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 4th Edition (WISC-4)
• Differential Ability Scales (DAS)
• Stanford-Binet, 5th Edition (SB:V)
• Woodcock-Johnson II Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ-III COG)
• Leiter International Performance Scale, Revised (Leiter-R)
• Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (C-TONI)
Educational / Assesses your student’s current educational performance. Identifies student’s strengths and weakness in reading, math, and written language. / • Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Achievement (WJ-III ACH)
• Wide Range Achievement test (WRAT-3)
• Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement 2nd edition(KTEA-II)
• Wechsler Individual Achievement test, 2nd Edition (WIAT-II)
• Peabody Individual Achievement test, Revised (PIAT-R)
Developmental / Assesses your pre-school age child’s current developmental age under the domains of personal and social, adaptive, cognitive, receptive and expressive communication, and gross and fine motor skills. / • Cognitive Abilities Scale 2nd edition (CAS-2)
• Developmental Activities Screening Inventory 2nd ed (DASI-II)
• Kaufman Developmental Scale (KDS)
• Preschool Evaluation Scale (PES)
• Preschool Language Scale 4th edition (PLS-4)
• Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-2nd Edition (VABS-2)
Speech & Language / Assesses your student’s ability to understand and use functional oral communication skills to include oral-motor, voice, and fluency skills. / • Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals -4 (CELF-4)
• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-III)
• Expressive Vocabulary Test (EVT)
• Goldman-Fristoe Test Articulation
• Oral & Written Language Scales (OWLS)
• Test of Language Development (TOLD-3)
• Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL)
Adaptive Skills / Assesses your student’s functional level of physical development, motor skills, and self-care skills. / • Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor proficiency
• Brigance Inventory of Early Development II
• Visual-Motor Integration (VMI)
• Test of Visual–Perceptual Skills (VPS-R)
Behavioral Scale / Assesses your student’s behavioral that impacts their educational performance through observations and/or consultation with student, staff, and/or parents. / • Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC-2)
• Functional Analysis Assessment (FAA)
• Conner’s Rating Scales (CRS-R)
• Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Vineland-II)
Hearing & Vision Screening / Assesses your student’s acuity for hearing and vision. The report is prepared by the school nurse.
Audiology / Assesses your student’s ability to hear, middle ear functioning, and the level at which the child can hear comfortably. The testing is provided by an audiologist. / • Test of Auditory Processing Skills (TAPS-R)
• Comprehensive Test of
Phonological Processing (CTOPP)
Autism / Assesses your student’s for characteristics specific to Autism and the impact these characteristics are having on education performance. / • Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Scale (ASDS)
• Autism Diagnostic Interview –Revised (ADI-R)
• Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS)
• Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS)
• Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (GARS)
• Psychoeducational Profile 3rd edition (PEP)
Social/Medical History / Social history is completed by the school social worker through an interview process with the parent to include your child’s developmental history, social/adaptive behavior in the home, school, and community.
The medical history is a written report from a physician indicating general medical history and any medical/health problems or diagnoses.
Assistive technology / Assesses your student’s need for assistive technology for the purpose of assisting the student in meeting their educational goals.

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