COURSE 500 SYLLABUS

Take your Advocacy Skills to the next level with just 12 One Day Classes.

The National Special Education Advocacy Institute, NSEAI, has been offering  BCEA™ trainings since 2008. They offered the first and the only national Board Certified Education Advocate program. This nationally recognized program is available for the benefit of parents & leaders in the education advocacy field, such as yourself.  

CLASS NUMBER:      500- ERS

CLASS TITLE:            500 – Evaluations 2 – Related Services  

DURATION:        18.17 hours

Lecture 7.17  hours in 29 videos with out of class assignments of 11.00 hours 
Academic institutions may accept 1.81 quarter credit hours or a no-credit / non-certification grade per course.

CLASS DESCRIPTION:
This is the fifth of 12 classes in a National Special Education Advocacy Training NSEAT™ program. It may stand-alone or be combined with the full 12-class program as the education prerequisite to the NSEAI Board Certified Education Advocate™ application. This class was developed as a collegiate level course.


 This class provides a broad introduction to related services and evaluations. What evaluations evaluate, types of evaluations, areas to evaluate, commonly used assessments will be reviewed. The role of the board certified Special Education Advocate in the educational evaluation process is discussed.  How to facilitate a student getting an evaluation, consent to evaluations and assessment requirements are outlined. Questions to ask about auditory processing, sensory integration, functional assessments, ToM and functional vision are discussed. Types of assessments, what evaluations are used for Assistive Technology, Audiology, Auditory Processing, Speech & Language, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Sensory Integration, Functional Assessments, Transition, as well as Determination of Service levels will be discussed.  

This class is designed to expand parental and professional education advocacy skills with a broad knowledge base related to academic and cognitive evaluations. This class provides information to students with disabilities, parents of children with disabilities, educators, lawyers, paralegals, state and federal agencies and related service providers on cognitive and educational evaluations and their use.    

CLASS OUTLINE:
Functional Vision
Speech & language
Common tests for speech and language
Evaluation Data
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy Tests
Sensory Integration
Signs of sensory integration disorder (SID) :
Functional Assessments
Ecological Inventory and Discrepancy Analysis
Transition
Nursing Services
Audiology
Auditory Processing
5 basic Subtypes of APD

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:
After completing the program, participants will:
•    Understand evaluation components for functional vision
•    Understand evaluation components for speech and language and physical therapy
•    Understand evaluation components for occupational therapy and Sensory Integration
•    Understand and identify functional assessments
•    Understand components of an audiological and an auditory processing evaluation


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