Wowzer!

The last two days of internship have been mind boggling! Yesterday I learned two new assessments - a CBM measure and a Phonological processing test. Then I wrote up reports and graphed the data I had collected. After that I worked on a psycho-educational report with Mr. H. It was an initial eval using RTI to qualify the child under SLD. It was so much information to process. I liked how it was so data driven. The child failed to respond to 30 weeks of a tier II reading intervention, so the Phonological Awareness Test -2 (PAT2) was administered to get a break down as to which areas of reading the child could and could not do, then from there they layered on additional assessment, and WJIII Achievement and even a processing test. All this information was smooshed into a neat and concise report of about 5 pages.

Today was more of the same, although not as overwhelming as yesterday! This morning I learned more of the paperwork side of things, how to get a SELPA number assigned to the kiddo, how many copies of the report are needed and who gets them. Then the afternoon was spent working on another report - this time one that the child was qualified by the traditional discrepancy model. Although I am familiar with this approach, it was still interesting to see how this particular school district does things. Mr. H. really knows his stuff though - sheesh, it is amazing what all that dude has in his noggin. I'm guessing he is only in his early to mid-forties and all I can say is I hope that in 15 or so years I will be so knowledgeable!