Assessing for Disabilities Bundle
Tool Factory introduces a bundle designed to assess your school's students for a variety of disabilities, using researched-based norms. This bundle includes a barrage of assessments in reading, math, emotions, and sensory awareness across a full range of ability levels. Test your students for Dyscalculia, or Dyslexia to find if they fall with in the norm range or if they are in need of more in-depth tutoring. Explore your student’s range of emotional awareness with Emotional Literacy Screener. Assess whether your students understanding their own emotions, and how those emotions affect others. Finally test your student’s perception of their sensory environment using the Snoezelen sensory screener. Deficits of the basic five senses can lead to behavior problems in a child’s future. Additional printed resources help you guide your students' educational progress.
Highlights
Dyslexia Screnner
Dyslexia Screener is a computer-based test, designed to help teachers to identify learners with Dyslexic tendencies. It’s appropriate for learners of all ages. Six activity areas cover non-verbal reasoning, phonological awareness, spelling, visual search, reading, and verbal reasoning. As an initial diagnostic tool, it enables you to distinguish between poor reading ability and dyslexia, and gives advice on next steps. Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that hinders the learning of literacy skills. This problem with managing verbal codes in memory is neurologically based and tends to run in families. Other symbolic systems, such as mathematics and musical notation, can also be affected.’ – Dyslexia Institute
Dyscalculia Screener
Dyscalculia is sometimes called number blindness, a condition that affects our ability to acquire arithmetic skills. Dyscalculic learners can have difficulties understanding simple number concepts, they lack an intuitive grasp of numbers, and have problems learning number facts and procedures. Designed specifically for 6-14 year old students, this computer-based tool is simple to administer and fun for students to take. The screener takes about 30 minutes to administer and distinguishes between students with a poor ability in math and those with specific learning difficulties. Using standardized data, the program immediately produces an individual diagnostic report and student profile to help you build individual programs for your students.
Dyscalculia Guide Book
This is the best reference we've found on dyscalculia! It includes a description of the disorder, guidelines for helping students in the classroom, teaching strategies, and practical activities. All of this is underpinned with an explanation of the emotional issues encountered with dyscalculic students, and advice on potential self-esteem issues.
Emotional Literacy Screener Ages 7-11
Emotional Literacy Screener is a new standardized assessment that identifies the status of emotional literacy of junior high to high school students. It also provides follow-up activities for intervention where necessary. The assessment covers elements of emotional literacy including: self-awareness, emotional resilience, motivation, and handling of emotions and relationships. Assessment of a student is based on three different relationships with the child. First with the student himself completing the assessment, parents can then take the assessment for the child and finally teachers can also complete the assessment. Its purpose is to provide teachers, pupils and parents with a measure of a child's emotional literacy, and offers ideas for intervention.
Emotional Literacy Screener Ages 11-16
Emotional Literacy Screener is a new standardized assessment kit designed to measure a child's emotional literacy, and offer ideas for intervention. A relatively new term, ‘emotional literacy’ is defined as the ability for students to appropriately recognize, understand, express, and handle their own emotions, and the expressed emotions of others. Emotional Literacy Screener identifies the status of a student’s emotional literacy and provides follow-up activities for intervention in targeted areas. The assessment covers: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. Three different tests measure perceptions of teachers and therapists, parents and caregivers at home, as well as the students themselves. A fantastic 135 page guidebook includes information on emotional and social competence, how to administer the test, interventions, worksheets, checklists, transparencies, and scoring keys. Each kit includes book, CD, student/parent/teacher questionnaires, and intervention activities.
Sensory Screener
This CD ROM has been developed to produce an assessment tool that identifies areas of sensory need in individuals with limited cognitive function and physical disability. The tool is easy to administer and suitable for identifying baseline function. It provides special educators and therapists with comprehensive guidelines in the light of assessment findings. These guidelines give suggestions of how multi-sensory activity can be used given the individual's sensory area of need.