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The Utility of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers in a Preschool-Age Special Education Sample
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Cogan-Ferchalk, JoAnna R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The number of young children with autism is ever-increasing, and school psychologists are more frequently required to identify these students. Valid screening tools are needed in order to focus school psychologists' time on those students in need of intensive evaluations in Early Intervention programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Young Children, Autism, Screening Tests
Protective Factors Based Model for Screening for Posttraumatic Distress in Adolescents
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Pat-Horenczyk, Ruth; Kenan, Avraham Max; Achituv, Michal; Bachar, Eytan – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2014
Background: There is growing application of school-based screening to identify post-traumatic distress in students following exposure to trauma. The consensus method is based on self-report questionnaires that assess posttraumatic symptoms, functional impairment, depression or anxiety. Objective: The current research explored the possibility of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Screening Tests, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Clinical Diagnosis
Discriminant and Predictive Validity of the WISC-III ACID Profile among Children with Learning Disabilities.
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Watkins, Marley W.; Kush, Joseph C.; Glutting, Joseph J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1997
Tests of the validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Third Edition Arithmetic, Coding, Information, and Digit Span (ACID) profile among 612 students with learning disabilities revealed that the ACID profile does not efficiently separate children with disabilities from those without disabilities. No ACID cutting score significantly…
Descriptors: Children, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
The Draw-a-Person Task in Persons with Mental Retardation: What Does It Measure?
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Dykens, Elisabeth – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1996
Draw-a-Person (DAP) samples from 108 adolescents and adults with mental retardation were scored using Naglieri's cognitive and emotional disturbance scoring systems. Visual-motor skills emerged as the best predictor of DAP cognitive scores, more predictive than intelligence. Findings suggest caution in using DAP as an index of intelligence or as a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Disability Identification, Emotional Disturbances
A Two Year Follow-Up Study of Children at Risk for Developing SED: Implications for Designing Prevention Programs.
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McKinney, James D.; Montague, Marjorie; Hocutt, Anne M. – 1998
This paper discusses the first year results of a screening procedure used to identify 92 kindergarten and first grade children who were at risk of developing serious emotional disturbance (SED), and presents additional data on the predictive validity of the screening procedure one year later. The Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders (SSBD)…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Disability Identification, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students
Can Severely Language Delayed 3-Year-Olds Be Identified at 18 Months? Evaluation of a Screening Version of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories
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Westerlund, Monica; Berglund, Eva; Eriksson, Marten – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of a screening instrument (the Swedish Communication Screening at 18 months of age; SCS18), derived from the Swedish MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory, in identification of 18-month-old children who will be severely language disabled by 3 years of age, the authors (a) analyzed which SCS18's…
Descriptors: Child Health, Receptive Language, Informal Assessment, Language Acquisition