A multi-discplinary evaluation of a child age 3-5, consists of a variety of measures to determine eligibility for special eduation and the needs of the child.
The multi-disciplinary evaluation consists of the following components: a social history (including health history and a physical examination), a psychological evaluation, an observation and other appropriate assessments/evaluations to determine your child’s skill level and abilities. Areas to be evaluated include cognition, language and communication, adaptive behavior, social-emotional, and motor development (defined below). Evaluation(s) may consist of interviews and checklists filled out by parents, play-based observations of the child, and standardized and more informal tests, given by a variety of professionals.
Parents are an integral part of the team. Their input is vital.
SEIT Services are services provided by certified special education teachers, on an itinerant basis, to a preschool student with a disability, at a site determined by the board of education, to:
- Provide specialized individual or group instruction directly to the student; and/or
- Provide consultation to the child’s teacher to adjust the learning environment and/or modify instructional methods to meet the individual needs of a preschool student with a disability who attends an early childhood program, i.e., a regular preschool program, a day care or in the home.
Social Work/History: consists of a parent interview and collection of background information.
Special Education: assesses cognitive and “pre-school readiness” skills. i.e., numbers,
letters, color recognition.
Psychological Evaluation/Counseling: a diagnostic evaluation and testing to study and describe a student’s developmental, learning, behavioral and other personality characteristics.
Occupational Therapy: Occupational Therapists may observe chewing and swallowing, grasp, states of alertness and overload, reactions to sound, light, and touch, and other sensory-motor and fine-motor areas.
Physical Therapy: Physical Therapists may be watching for neuromotor development, aerobic capacity and general level of endurance for functional activities and efficiency of movement, functional mobility and sensory motor integration.
Speech Pathology: Speech Pathologists will be trying to determine both receptive (listening) and expressive (speaking) language levels, articulation skills, stuttering, feeding/oral motor and pragmatics. If the child is not yet talking, the speech pathologist may try to determine language comprehension using augmentative language devices (picture boards, etc.).
- Handwriting Without Tears
- Prompt
- Orthopedic Rehab
- Signing to Enhance Vocabulary
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