Ok so maybe my title is a bit overly dramatic, but man oh man have I been running this week! Yesterday I think could have been put down in my personal record book! I did 2 observations, 2 counseling sessions, assessed a kid, progress monitored, met with my behavior mod kids and met with a parent and a teacher. YIKES! I ended up having to run home, grab a sandwich and run to class. Today appears to be close to yesterdays busyness. It's just noon and I have already done a classroom observation, cognitive assessment, read with a kid and plugged them into a reading intervention group, and done RTI program evaluation on 3 kids in the Tier 3 program. Plus I got stuff ready for this afternoon's IEP. You know what is cool though? Even though I am so busy, I am thoroughly enjoying myself.
The kid I did the cognitive assessment on this morning is my first MR eval. He kept me on my toes as he required CONSTANT redirection and praise. I gave him the Weschler Nonverbal Inventory, and as we went through the Matrix subtest after every answer he gave he had to drum on the table with his hands and then give me a high five. He did stay pretty well engaged during the object assembly. He loved those puzzles, but I could hardly get anything out of him during the coding exercise. His fine motor skills were really poor and writing did not seem to go well. He would glance up at the key at the top of the page and then completely loose his place on the paper. Poor little dude. He was a drooler too. But, all in all for my first MR cognitive test, I think it went well. Although I at times had to break standardization with the kiddo, I think my results are valid. Overall, his FS was 70, so he is just barely on the line. I saw his adaptive scores were really low too.
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