Assessment for Early Intervention: Best Practices for Professionals - Softcover
Federal mandates embodied in P.L. 99-457 require that professionals have the expertise to provide family-centered early intervention services, particularly developmental assessment. Written for psychologists, ASSESSMENT FOR EARLY INTERVENTION is a self-instructional guidebook relevant to all professionals who must acquire the unique perspectives and best practices to work with families and their infants and preschoolers with developmental disabilites.
The ultimate purpose of early childhood assessment is the planning of programs for children and their families, and this guidebook emphasizes that flexible collaboration is a means to this end. It demonstrates how teams of parents and professionals can strive to make joint decisions about current and changing treatment needs. It also stresses that the assessor's competence in decision-making is more important to the process than the qualities of various assessment instruments. With content that is immediately applicable, ASSESSMENT FOR EARLY INTERVENTION moves beyond diagnosis (which is often premature) to prescribe broad interventions for improving the quality of life for the child and the family.
The ultimate purpose of early childhood assessment is the planning of programs for children and their families, and this guidebook emphasizes that flexible collaboration is a means to this end. It demonstrates how teams of parents and professionals can strive to make joint decisions about current and changing treatment needs. It also stresses that the assessor's competence in decision-making is more important to the process than the qualities of various assessment instruments. With content that is immediately applicable, ASSESSMENT FOR EARLY INTERVENTION moves beyond diagnosis (which is often premature) to prescribe broad interventions for improving the quality of life for the child and the family.
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Stephen J. Bagnato , Childrens Hospital of UCLID, Pittsburgh.
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``This is a refreshing book on assessment. Instead of focusing on the adequecy of tests, the book focuses on the competence of the the psychologist and the assessment process. While the authors emphasize the developmental psychology of the young child, they provide sound and practical discussions of the implications of PL99-457, models of team assessment and intervention, staging of the assessment, and appropriate assessment tools. I was particularly pleased with their emphasis on `shopping for skills' in the assessed child. In summary, I intend to incorporate this book as the centerpiece of my preschool assessment class. It is one of the best books available on the assessment of the young child.'' --Roy P. Martin, M.D., University of Georgia, President of Division 16 (School Psychology) of the American Psychological Association
``A superb job....This book is perhaps the best example we currently have illustrating very practical, useful ways that school psychologists can improve their knowledge and skills working with preschool children with handicaps and their families....I am especially impressed with the substantive guidepoints and best practice checklists. These alone make this book better than anything else on the market. Master the content of this book, and you will most certainly be head and shoulders above those who have not taken advantage of what Bagnato and Neisworth have achieved in this `essential reading' for school psychologists and other early intervention practitioners.'' --Carl J. Dunst, Western Carolina Center
``A superb job....This book is perhaps the best example we currently have illustrating very practical, useful ways that school psychologists can improve their knowledge and skills working with preschool children with handicaps and their families....I am especially impressed with the substantive guidepoints and best practice checklists. These alone make this book better than anything else on the market. Master the content of this book, and you will most certainly be head and shoulders above those who have not taken advantage of what Bagnato and Neisworth have achieved in this `essential reading' for school psychologists and other early intervention practitioners.'' --Carl J. Dunst, Western Carolina Center
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- PublisherThe Guilford Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0898622387
- ISBN 13 9780898622386
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages260
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