4 January 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For Further Information Contact: Steve Hamerdinger, President steve.hamerdinger@... ADARA FORUMS PRESENTS "CURRENT...
There is a new listerve that was created by multi-discplinary people related to visual phonics and various research being conducted around the country. The...
Happy New Year Everyone! Here's a brief summary of a situation before I pose my questions: Last spring, the WISC-IV was administered to a 14 year old girl. She...
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Jan 5, 2006 12:37 am
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Couple of thoughts: 1. The structure and form of the WASI are basically identical to the WISC-IV subtests of the same name, and scaling (apart from the wider...
Karen Wills
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Jan 6, 2006 4:08 am
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Karen did a great job discussing the IQ testing. My question is about the Vinelands. Mom was given two different Vinelands and came up with two different...
Hi Amanda & group: When you get differences from one test to another that large, I think the $64M question is -- examiner qualifications. If the second...
Hi, Pleaes pardon my ignorance - what is the WASI? I am not familiar with this test...what does it test? Erez Miller, Ph.D School psychologist, Israel...
Whoah there! .... while I agree that it is possible the results discrepancy could be due to errors made by an unqualified or unscrupulous examiner, I have to...
Karen Wills
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Jan 8, 2006 10:15 am
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Wechsler Abbreviated Scales of Intelligence -- slightly different items but same format as the 4 WISC4 subtests, Block Design, Matrix Reasoning, Vocabulary &...
Karen Wills
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Jan 8, 2006 10:18 am
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I wonder if others can comment on the use of Verbal Scales of various tests by examiners experienced with deaf and hard of hearing students.... I recently...
Good morning! Is anyone familiar with the school-neuropsychology post-graduate certification program offern by KIDS, Inc based in Texas? It's 8 weekends, ...
Hello - I attended a full day workshop with Dr. Feifer on the Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders. It was excellent! He has authored 3 books with Dr. Philip...
Wigent, Anne
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Jan 9, 2006 2:42 pm
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Colleagues, This is a really interesting discussion, and I thought I'd throw in my two cents. I agree with what others have said about the great interpretive ...
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Jan 9, 2006 3:13 pm
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Hi Karen & group: Thanks for reminding me, and the group, that even trained psychologists with signing skills do use interpreters during their assessments....
One of the biggest challenges in the field is how to measure general language (non-English and English in non- print contexts) skills of Deaf children...
margery.miller
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Jan 9, 2006 5:28 pm
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Using a sign language interpreter often creates difficulties merely because an excellent signer may have a wonderful repertoire of signed vocabulary available...
margery.miller
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Jan 9, 2006 5:35 pm
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Thanks for the information :) Where did you learn about the possible Philly site? I was looking on the website and filled out their request form to have one...
I found the information that Dr. Feifer shared fascinating, research based, and practical/easily applied. Like you, I was looking to increase my knowledge in...
Wigent, Anne
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Jan 9, 2006 8:25 pm
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Becky, I Googled Dr. Feifer and learned that he is presenting two paid workshops at NASP 2006 in Anaheim. Here's the link: ...
I'm usually a lurker....but here goes... Just a comment that I also recently have been afforded the opportunity to utilize an interpreter during several recent...
Shawn: wow ... I am impressed that you were able to find such an interpreter. What you described is a pretty unique situation. In the case of the autistic...
I tend to agree that the key issue here is in what context cued speech or other attempts to foster decoding skills such as visual phonics are being used....
Grover Odenthal
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Jan 12, 2006 8:11 pm
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The problem as I see it is that the development of literacy skills, by definition, means "literacy skills in English." While I have no quibble with ASL as a...
I do mean literacy in English (forgive me if I thought it was obvious, Sign Language does not have a written form, needless to say) and did not state that the...
Grover Odenthal
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Jan 13, 2006 9:15 pm
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OK Grover, I think we're on the same page. I hear you saying *a* language is better than *no* (or partial, or lousy) language, for all the good reasons you...
Hi all :-) Here's a complicated question... First, some background: In Israel we have mainly two groups of professional who assess students with learning...
Hi all, Here's another question, not pertaining specifically for working with deaf/hoh students, but I'd appreciate some clues or references. I believe that he...
Hi Eretz: the assessors you call "educational evaluators" are called "diagnostic teachers" at the California School for the Deaf Fremont. Our 4 diagnostic...
