Overview

Essentials of Processing Skills Assessment, the latest addition to the popular Essentials of Psychogical Assessment series, provides critical information about this important aspect of cognitive functioning. Understanding how the brain processes information is vital to identifying a child's strengths and weaknesses with regard to learning and to formulating appropriate interventions for specific learning difficulties. This handy resource provides students and practitioners with the tools they need to accurately and efficiently assess processing skills. Using the proven Essentials format, the author first presents a model of cognitive processing and learning accompanied by a snapshot of interventions that address various processing deficits, especially those linked to problems with reading, writing, and arithmetic.Next, he outlines a cross-battery approach to selecting appropriate assessment measures and reviews key instruments, such as the WISC -IV, KABC-II, Stanford-Binet 5, WJ III TM , WIAT-II, KTEA-II, NEPSY, and others. Finally, he provides indispensable guidelines on how to organize a processing assessment and how to interpret results. The book includes a detailed chart categorizing the scales and subtests used in processing assessments and a valuable worksheet for analyzing results.

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Author:   Milton J. Dehn
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 14.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.314kg
ISBN:  

9780471719250

ISBN 10:   0471719250
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 December 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Series Preface. Acknowledgments. One: Introduction and Overview. Two: Processing and Learning. Three: Strategies for Assessing Processing. Four: How to Interpret Processing Assessment Results. Five: Assessing Processing with Traditional Intelligence Scales. Six: Assessing Processing with Cognitive Scales. Seven: Assessing Memory. Eight: Using Scales Designed to Assess Processing. Nine: Illustrative Case Reports. Appendix A: Selective Testing Table for Processes Measured by Cognitive Tests. Appendix B: Processing Assessment Organizer. Appendix C: Processing Analysis Worksheet. Appendix D: Conversion Table: Scaled Scores to Standard Scores. Appendix E: Supplemental Processing Analysis Worksheet for All Wechsler Scales. Appendix F: Calculation of WISC-IV Integrated Clinical Processing Factor Scores and Pairwise Comparisons. Appendix G: Processes Measured by Standardized Tests. References. Annotated Bibliography. Index. About the Author.

Reviews

"""...one of the clearest expositions of the assessment process that I've ever seen."" (Essentials of Processing Assessment, April 2007)"

""...one of the clearest expositions of the assessment process that I've ever seen."" (Essentials of Processing Assessment, April 2007)

...one of the clearest expositions of the assessment process that I've ever seen. (Essentials of Processing Assessment, April 2007)

Author Information

MILTON J. DEHN, EdD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology and former director of the School Psychology program at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. He is also program director for Schoolhouse Educational Services, an agency that provides tutoring and remedial education to children with processing and learning problems, in addition to providing continuing education to psychologists and educators.

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