Assessing Individuals With Disabilities in Educational, Employment, and Counseling Settings - Softcover

Assessing Individuals with Disabilities in Educational, Employment, an d Counseling Settings is an indispensable reference for testing profes sionals as they face the challenge of how best to assess and test peop le with disabilities. The book begins with a review of the legal and psychometric issues that must be considered. Next the contributors des cribe frequently used testing accommodations, documentation of accommo dations, and how to report scores when accommodations are used. The c ontributors then cover issues that are of special concern in clinical and counseling settings, in educational settings, and in assessment fo r employment, certification, and licensing. Throughout the volume the authors emphasize equity as the basis for accommodations. Because app roximately twenty percent of the United States population has some typ e of disability, the information contained here will prove an invaluab le reference for psychologists, counselors, educators, employers, test makers, and testing professionals.