Chapter 7

Question 1

Purpose of the MDT

Answer 1

-Mandated by IDEIA so that the child and parents are guaranteed that any comprehensive evaluation be conducted by different professionals to decrease the possibility of subjective and discriminatory assessment.

Question 2

Role of the MDT

Answer 2

-To work as a single unit in determining the possible cause, contributing behavioral factors, educational status, prognosis, and recommendations for a student with a suspected disability

Question 3

What must be done to ensure the MDT complies with IDEA?

Answer 3

-Their findings are reviewed by another committee (eligibility committee, IEP committee, or committee on special education)

Question 4

What are the objectives of an educational assessment?

Answer 4

• Help determine the child’s stronger and weaker academic skill areas, whether the child’s academic skills are suitable for a regular class, and help the teacher gear the materials to the learning capacity of the individual child
• Develop a learning profile that can help the classroom teacher understand the best way to present information to the child
• Use an achievement battery that covers enough skill areas to make an adequate diagnosis of academic strengths and weaknesses

Question 5

What are the objectives of a psychological assessment?

Answer 5

• Determine the child’s present overall levels of intellectual ability, present verbal intellectual ability, non-language intellectual ability, and intellectual ability to deal with present grade-level academic demands
• Explore indications of greater potential and the influence of intellectual ability as a contributing factor to a child’s past and present school difficulties
• Find possible patterns of learning style
• Ascertain possible influences of tension and anxiety on testing results