For those of you who don’t know what a school psychologist does, a big part of our job is to assess children for disabilities. A…

I see a group of fuzzy hairs attached to a medium sized four-legged creature. A large pink object attached to a smaller portion of the…

Now that it’s summer break, I have time to do those pesky little things that get shoved to the bottom of the to-do list. I…

This next post in the series on Psychoeducational Assessments (Background History, Testing Observations, Intelligence/Cognition, and Visual-Motor Integration,) has been extraordinarily daunting for a number of…

So far, this series has addressed the following components of a Psychoeducational assessment: 1) Background History2) Testing Observations3) Intelligence/Cognition In this post, the psychological process…

This post could be an entire blog, book, or career. I will try to do it justice. The cognitive/intelligence portion of the pychoeducational assessment is…

I started a series on psychoeducational assessment to help clarify the information in school psychologists’ highly specialized reports that are presented when students are tested…

Okay, it’s really the same thing, but when you hand a report to a parent, it’s unsettling to see the word “Psycho” in isolation like…

Every year, at the end of the year, there are one million* referrals for special education testing for students in 5th grade. All have the…

I once worked with a 6-year old boy who was referred for a special education assessment following a report from a clinical psychologist that diagnosed…