Transcript Chapter 14
Chapter 14
Assessment of Development
Robert J. Drummond and Karyn Dayle Jones
Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 6 th edition
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Overview
• Approximately 17% of individuals in the United States 18 years and
younger have a developmental disability.
• Developmental disabilities are a diverse group of severe chronic
conditions that are due to mental and/or physical impairments.
• Disabilities can include impairments in language, mobility, learning, selfhelp, and independent living.
• Developmental disabilities begin anytime during development up to 22
years of age and usually last throughout a person’s lifetime.
Robert J. Drummond and Karyn Dayle Jones
Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 6 th edition
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Examples of Developmental Disabilities
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Autism spectrum disorders
Cerebral palsy
Hearing loss
Mental retardation
Vision impairment
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Developmental Assessment
• Assessment can be a valuable tool in the screening,
diagnosis, placement, program planning, and evaluation of
programs.
• Developmental assessment needs to focus on both the
client and the client’s environment.
• Client’s significant individuals (parents, guardians,
teachers, spouses, friends, and relatives) may participate in
the assessment process.
Robert J. Drummond and Karyn Dayle Jones
Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 6 th edition
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Developmental assessment focuses on
these characteristics:
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Normality of client functioning
Family, school, or work functioning
Physical, psychological, and emotional health
Expectations of the client and significant others
Current educational, social, and psychological needs
Robert J. Drummond and Karyn Dayle Jones
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Domains
Domains common to developmental assessment instruments
across the life span:
• Communication skills: verbal and nonverbal, receptive and
expressive, listening and comprehension
• Cognitive skills: reasoning, thinking, memory; basic
achievement in reading, writing, and mathematics; problem
solving
• Physical development: general growth; motor and sensory;
balance, locomotion, walking
• Emotional development: temperament, adjustment, emotional
expression, self-concept, attitudes
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• Social development: peer and family relationships,
friendships, interpersonal relationships
• Self-care skills: basic self-care needs such as drinking,
eating, toileting, dressing
• Independent living skills: functioning independently in the
home and community, including clothing care, cooking,
transportation, shopping, money management
• Work habits and adjustment skills: working
independently, maintaining proper work habits, working
with employers and employees, seeking and keeping jobs
• Adjustment problems: aggression, hyperactivity, acting
out, withdrawal, delinquency, stress, depression
Robert J. Drummond and Karyn Dayle Jones
Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 6 th edition
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Methods of Assessment
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direct testing
naturalistic observation
interviewing of parents, teachers, or guardians
multiple measures
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General Batteries
• Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning
• Battelle Developmental Inventory
• Denver Developmental Screening Test
Robert J. Drummond and Karyn Dayle Jones
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Tests to assess:
• Language development
• Stages of cognitive development
• Psychosocial development
Robert J. Drummond and Karyn Dayle Jones
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Moral Development
• Kohlberg’s Stages:
– Preconventional morality
– Conventional morality
– Postconventional morality
Robert J. Drummond and Karyn Dayle Jones
Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 6 th edition
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