Chapter 7 MDT Flashcards
What is the purpose of MDT?
The Multidisciplinary team usually comes into operation when the local school-based (child study team [CST]) has conducted a screening and suspects a disability. Once that is determined, then the MDT takes over.
What are the role of MDT?
The role of the MDT is to work as a single unit in determining the possible cause, contributing behavioral factors, educational status, prognosis (outcome), and recommendations for a student with a suspected disability.
What must be done to ensure the MDT complies with IDEA?
a. Assessment materials and other evaluation materials are selected and administered so as not to be discriminatory on a racial or cultural basis.
b. Assessment materials are provided and administrated in the language and form most likely to yield accurate information on what the child knows and can do academically, developmentally, and functionally, unless it is not feasible to so provide or administer.
c. Tests and other assessment materials have been validated for the specific purpose for which they are used.
d. Test and other assessment material are administered by trained personnel in conformance with the instructions provided by the producer of the tests and other assessment materials, except that individually administered tests of intellectual or emotional functioning shall be administered by a credentialed school psychologists.
e. Tests and other assessment materials are selected and administrated to best ensure that a test administrated to a pupil with impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills produces test result that accurately reflect the pupil’s aptitude, achievement level or any other factors the test purports to measure and not the pupil’s impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills, unless those skills are the factors the test purports to measure.
f. no single procedure is used as the sole criterion for determining an appropriate educational program for an individual with exceptional needs.
g. the pupil’s is assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability including, where appropriate, health and development, vision, including low vision, hearing, motor abilities, language function, general ability, academic performance, self-help, orientation and mobility skills, career, and vocational abilities and interests, and social and emotional status. A development history is obtained, when appropriate. For pupils with residual vision, a low vision assessment shall be provided.
h. Person knowledgeable of that disability shall conduct the assessment of a pupil, including the assessment of a pupil with a suspected low incidence disability.
What are the objectives of an educational assessment?
An educational assessment is frequency recommended when a child’s academic skill levels (reading, writing,math, and spelling) are unknown or inconsistent. The evaluation will determine will determine strengths and weaknesses in the child’s academic performance.
What are the objectives of a psychological assessment?
An psychological/Intellectual assessment are appropriate when the child’s intellectual ability is unknown or when there is a question about his or her inability to learn. It can rule out or rule in emotionally as a primary cause of a child’s problems.
