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Tricky Profiles at pre 16 – Looking Beyond the Scores - 06 Sep 2024 to 06 Sep 2025: Patoss

Tricky Profiles at pre 16 – Looking Beyond the Scores - 06 Sep 2024 to 06 Sep 2025: Patoss

Overview

  • Date(s)
    06 Sep 2024 - 06 Sep 2025
  • Cost
    £78.00
  • Provider
    Patoss
  • Delivery type
    Distance
  • Course level
    Advanced
  • Course summary

    The webinar, presented by Karen Bartlett, will examine tricky profiles and encourage participants to look beyond the scores when making a diagnosis of dyslexia, considering protective and compensatory factors
  • CPD credit hours
    2 hours and 30 minutes
  • Course themes
    Reviewing principles of psychometrics, statistics, assessment and underlying theory, SpLD testing methods, interpretation, report writing, feedback and test materials
  • Audience
    Assessors, Support, Assessment centres, Training institutions
  • Website
    https://www.patoss-dyslexia.org/OnDemand/ondemand-tricky-profiles-at-pre-16-looking-beyond-the-scores-sasc-authorised/15298?OccId=20803)
  • SASC Code
    SASC-20240828-1187

Description

The course will broaden knowledge and understanding by considering a range of different assessment profiles which evidence dyslexia. It will look beyond the scores and ensure assessors effectively consider the background information and qualitative information along with the scores. It will consider protective and compensatory factors and their impact on assessment and diagnosis.

The course will broaden knowledge and understanding by considering a range of different assessment profiles which evidence dyslexia. It will look beyond the scores and ensure assessors effectively consider the background information and qualitative information along with the scores. It will consider protective and compensatory factors and their impact on assessment and diagnosis. Assessors will have the opportunity to work through case studies to investigate how aspects of background information, quantitative and qualitative information are synthesised to form a diagnostic outcome. The course will also look at the recommendations made in the case studies and why they are chosen to suit the profile.

The session will include:

  • An overview of the different ages and stages when an individual may request an assessment and why
  • The complex nature of assessment - when is it dyslexia and when isn't it?
  • What are protective and compensatory factors?
  • The importance of individual profiles of strengths and weaknesses in planning intervention and support
  • Discussion of complex case studies to investigate how aspects of background information, quantitative and qualitative information are synthesised to form a diagnostic outcome and how to match recommendations to need

Learning outcomes

  • To understand why an assessment is requested at different ages and stages.
  • An overview of the complex nature of assessment - when is it dyslexia and when isn’t it?
  • What are protective and compensatory factors?
  • To recognise strengths and weaknesses within the profile and how to use these to plan intervention and support
  • To explore complex case studies to investigate how aspects of background information, quantitative and qualitative information are synthesised to form a diagnostic outcome and how to match recommendations to need.

Course prerequisites

  • Primary and Secondary or assessors working at post 16 who would like to extend their knowledge at pre 16
  • Delegates should be specialist assessors.

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