Webinar Archive: Understanding the Woodcock-Johnson III (2 Part)
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Conducted September 6 and 13, 2006 (2 Part)
ABOUT THE WEBINAR:
This Webinar provides an overview of the Woodcock-Johnson III, the most widely used achievement test for school age children with disabilities, including the tests of achivement and tests of cognitive abilities. How these tests are used to diagnosis learning difficulities and learning disabilities as well as how to use the test results to determine instructional needs is discussed.
New approaches to the identification of specific learning disabilities (SLD) will be explored and misuses of test results will be explained. Supplemental materials is made available to participants to further aid in their use of the knowledge learned during the presentations.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Nancy Mather is a Professor at the University of Arizona in the department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and School Psychology. She specializes in the areas of assessment, reading, writing, and learning disabilities. She has served as a learning disabilities teacher, a diagnostician, a university professor, and an educational consultant. She has published numerous articles and conducts workshops on assessment and instruction nationwide. Dr. Mather is a co-author of the Woodcock-Johnson III and has co-authored two books on interpretation and application of the WJ III: Woodcock-Johnson III: Reports, Recommendations, and Strategies (Mather & Jaffe, 2002) and Essentials of WJ III Tests of Achievement Assessment (Mather, Wendling, & Woodcock, 2001). In addition, she has recently co-authored the books: Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors: A Guide to Intervention and Classroom Management (2nd ed.) (Mather & Goldstein, 2008), Evidence-based Interventions for Students with Learning and Behavioral Challenges (Morris & Mather, 2008), Essentials of Assessment Report Writing (Lichtenberger, Mather, Kaufman, & Kaufman, 2004), and Essentials of Evidence-based Academic Interventions (Wendling & Mather, 2009).
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