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Purpose of the MDT
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-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.
2
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Role of the MDT
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-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
3
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What must be done to ensure the MDT complies with IDEA?
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-Their findings are reviewed by another committee (eligibility committee, IEP committee, or committee on special education)
4
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What are the objectives of an educational assessment?
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- 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
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What are the objectives of a psychological assessment?
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- 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
