Title: Measurement and Interpretation of Standardized Reading Assessments for Professionals and Parents
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Abstract: This webinar provides an overview of popular reading tests and discusses 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
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.
