SCPY724

School of Social & Behavioral Sciences

The course will examine issues in the assessment of bilingual children including the appropriate use of standardized measures, nondiscriminatory assessment, alternative approaches to the assessment of cognitive functioning and social adaptive behavior of linguistically diverse children. Students will learn how to conduct evaluations in the child's first and/or second language. Students will administer tests, make case presentations and write reports. Interpretation of data will focus on integrating clinical findings so that individual educational plans can be developed.

Pass/Fail (P), Standard (S)