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Schools

 

 We are pleased to introduce a new School section of the Autism Coach catalog primarily intended for educators and  other professionals.  Recent research has shed more light on the nature of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) than ever before.  Correspondingly, this rapidly growing body of knowledge is leading to new approaches to better educate and treat ASD students.  

Diagnostic Assessment Tools

Students within the autism spectrum are like little puzzles and parents and professionals are trying to figure out how these children perceive incoming information and process it in order to promote  communication and learning. These wonderful new assessment tools enable professionals to quickly and efficiently shed light on critical developmental areas, identifying and targeting areas of strength and deficit.

Disability Assessment Software Bundle

 

 

 

Autism Coach introduces a software 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.

This bundle Includes the following

Dyslexia Screener
Dyscalculia Screener
Dyscalculia Guidebook
Emotional Literacy Screener Ages 7-11
Emotional Literacy Screener Ages 11-16
Sensory Screener
Asperger's Syndrome Assessment DVD

Each product is also sold separately and described below.

$1345 (Total retail value of $1558)

Dyslexia Screener

 

 

 

 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 Screener: Includes adaptive testing to give you rich and relevant information and provides standardized scores.  It:

Provides instant scoring and analysis gives you immediate results.
Is simple to administer and accessible to use.
Is suitable for a wide range of students.
Has been designed by experts in dyslexia assessment and diagnosis.

Dyslexic students may face the following problems:

· Auditory and/or visual discrimination.

· Sequencing.

· Left and right orientation.

· Short term memory.

· Reading.

· Spelling.

· Language development.


The screener will often identify students who were never previously suspected of having the disorder. It provides a report showing the tendencies of a Dyslexic student, compared to the tendencies of the tested student. This can then be used to recommend targeted students for further testing and full diagnosis. This program is sold by annual license, and covers testing of the entire student body of one school for a year.  Once you have made the initial purchase, the annual renewal fee is $99.

$399 One Year Network License - Windows
Dyscalculia Screener

Dyscalculia Screener is an innovative computer-based assessment tool designed to help you identify children ages 6-14 with learning difficulties in math.

What is Dyscalculia?

Dyscalculia is a group of math-based learning difficulties estimated to effect more than eleven million Americans. Sometimes called number blindness, a condition that affects our ability to acquire arithmetic skills.

Dyscalculia is a condition that has recently been discovered. Dyscalculic learners can have difficulties understanding simple number concepts, 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 this specific learning difficulty. Using standardized data, the program immediately produces an individual diagnostic report and student profile to help you build an individual program for your students.

Installation is fast, taking only a few minutes on any Windows-based computer. At the time of installation, the educator or therapist designates a password that will allow them to input information about the students to be tested and access to test results. Students can be tested multiple times allowing progress to be measured over time, and new students can be entered at any point by the administrator.

For the student, Dyscalculia Screener is colorful and interactive. Since the assessment device is designed for students as young as age six, the interface is straightforward and includes verbal instructions for students who don’t have adequate reading skills. A soft-spoken woman carefully outlines each step. After a brief section orienting the student with basic keyboard instructions, the assessment battery is divided into four sub-tests:

Simple reaction time: Students respond as dots appear on the screen. The results are used to evaluate response time in other sections.

Enumeration: Students decide whether the quantity of dots in one circle matches the digit in the other.

Number Comparison: Students are presented with two digits, often of different physical sizes, and they determine which is greater.

Arithmetic Achievement (addition and multiplication): The student decides whether the displayed equations are correct or incorrect.

Each section is tailored to the student's age, and Dyscalculia Screener doesn’t tell the student whether they’re right or wrong. The goal is to minimize anxiety and provide a comfortable testing environment. Dyscalculia Screener also carefully prepares each section for the student and affirms that the instructions have been understood before moving forward.

After the test, the teacher can enter the administrative password and access the student’s test results. The student’s results are evaluated and the educator is given a top-level analysis of student test performance: normal for age group, evidence of dyscalculia, problems with arithmetic without dyscalculia, etc. The valuable seventy-five page manual also provides multiple references and recommendations for educators whose students display dyscalculic tendencies.  Dyscalculia Screener was a 2004 winner of the BETT Awards, a British honor recognizing creativity, commitment and innovation in the development of education-related technologies.  

This program is sold by annual license, and covers testing of the entire student body of one school for a year.  Once you have made the initial purchase, the annual renewal fee is $99.

$399 - One Year Network License - Windows
Dyscalculia Guidance Book

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 they have problems learning number facts and procedures. 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.

$34
Emotional Literacy Assessment and Intervention:  Ages 7-11

Emotional Literacy Screener is a new standardized assessment for elementary aged students. It provides practical tools that can be used by anyone involved in the education of children and young people. A relatively new term, emotional literacy is defined as the ability of people to recognize, understand, handle and appropriately express 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 where necessary. The assessment covers elements including: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. Three standardized checklists enable the user to assess emotional literacy of a student according to the perceptions of adults in school, parents and caregivers at home, as well as the students themselves. Emotional Literacy Screener comes complete with a guidebook including information on emotional and social competence, how to administer the test, interventions, worksheets, checklists and scoring keys. Its purpose is to provide teachers, pupils and parents with a measure of a child's emotional literacy, and offers ideas for intervention.

Benefits:· 

Provides teachers and guidance counselors with diagnostic tools to understand and develop a pupil’s emotional literacy.

Can positively enhance a pupil’s behavior and learning.

Provides ready-made, age-appropriate activities that save time and effort when planning intervention.

A facility for re-assessment allows you to monitor progress and helps you to gauge the impact of an intervention.

The complete set includes a teacher guidance book, pupil, teacher, and parent questionnaires and intervention activities.

"I was able to show this program to staff in our EMH and CD programs. The teachers were very excited about it! They did have a chance to use it with a few students….and, the response was very good. Our higher level EMH students and our CD students were able to give valid responses. Great for regular ed, higher level EMH, CD, LD, and especially BD. Also, I think social workers or psychologists would LOVE this program. " - Barbara Chwierut, AT Coordinator and Teacher in Special Education Coop

$159 - Win/Mac
Emotional Literacy  Assessment and Intervention:  Ages 11-16

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.

Benefits

Provides teachers and counselors with diagnostic tools to handle behavior and develop a student’s emotional literacy.

Provides ready-made, age-appropriate activities that save time and effort when planning intervention.

Can positively enhance a student’s behavior and learning.

Can be used to retest to assess progress following intervention.

Activities are appropriate for use in health education classes.

The complete set contains teacher guidance, pupil, teacher, parent questionnaires and intervention activities.

$159 - Win/Mac
Sensory Screener:  SNOEZELEN Sensory Profiling and Assessment

This is the most comprehensive profiling tool ever developed for sight, sound, movement, smell, taste, and touch! The SNOEZELEN Sensory Profiling and Assessment Tool, jointly developed by SEMERC and ROMPA, with the backing of the University of Southhampton, in the United Kingdom, is an assessment tool, which identifies areas of sensory need in individuals with limited cognitive function and physical disability. This easy-to-administer tool is great for establishing baseline competencies. It provides comprehensive guidelines of how multi-sensory activity can be used, given the individual's sensory area of need. Get tips on selecting the most appropriate sensory equipment, activities are suggested, and guidance is provided for developing intervention programs. The software is ideal for educators working with severely disabled clients, adults with learning disabilities, mental health problems, head injury and stroke victims, dementia and Alzheimer’s patients.

The therapist or teacher administers the test, with questions being answered on behalf of the target client or student. Begin by logging in as an Assessor, then logging in each of the students individually. Educators can record medical history as well as additional information relating to the student. Answer 10 questions in each of the sensory areas of sight, sound, movement, smell, taste, and touch. There are questions such as, “How often…” and, “Does the student react to (bright lights, loud sounds, etc.)…”. Answers are selected by the assessor and typically consist of: Never, Rarely, Frequently, Occasionally, All the time, or Don’t know. If unsure about which answer to select, a small bubble will appear to give the assessor an approximate number of times a week the activity should occur for each answer. Examples are always provided to give more depth and understanding to the prompted questions.

Questions can be answered in any order and tests can be paused without the risk of losing information. Once completed, reports can be viewed in graphical form as well as raw scores, and data summary. Report sheets can be personalized by adding comments, and then easily printed for IEPs, permanent records, and development of further intervention strategies. The assessment can be repeated to monitor changes in behavior over time, and to review the effectiveness of intervention strategies.

The software is appropriate for use with children in mainstream settings as well as children and adults with physical difficulties, mental health problems or learning difficulties.

$279 - Win/Mac

Asperger Syndrome Assessment DVD

 

Tony Attwood, one of the world's leading experts in Asperger's Syndrome, provides a video course on how to diagnose Asperger's Syndrome in students. 

$129