Date: Thursday, August 27, 2020
Time: 02:00 PM Pacific Time
05:00 PM Eastern Time
Title: Measurement and Interpretation of Standardized Reading Assessments for Professionals and Parents
Abstract: This webinar will provide an overview of popular reading tests and discuss their strengths and limitations with respect to their psychometric properties, testing components, as well as subtest interpretation.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this webinar participants will be able to:
- List popular standardized reading tests
- Discuss discriminant accuracy of select standardized reading tests
- Describe testing components of select, popularly used, standardized tests of reading
- Explain how to interpret standardized testing results in order to understand the clients’ profile of reading strengths and limitations
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y2aDqXSdR-SnOebGhmGjEQ
Presented by Tatyana Elleseff MA CCC-SLP
Bio: Tatyana Elleseff MA CCC-SLP is a bilingual speech-language pathologist, specializing in issues of multicultural, internationally & domestically adopted, as well as abused, at-risk, and traumatized children with language and literacy disorders in hospital, school, and private practice settings. She has been published in several peer-reviewed journals as well as presented for numerous medical, academic, and non-profit organizations and speech-language-hearing associations both nationally and internationally. She is a clinical instructor at the RWJ Medical School Dept. of Psychiatry and a Clinical Supervisor at Rutgers Day School, an outpatient facility located in a hospital setting for children with significant psychiatric disturbances and concomitant language and literacy impairments.
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