Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment A Functional Approach to Working With Young Children

Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment. This popular manual details a practical, diagnostic, and comprehensive model for assessing a child's developmental level, learning styles, temperament, motivation, and interaction patterns in cognitive, social-emotional, communication and language, and sensorimotor areas. Designed to meet the requirements of Part C of IDEA, the manual provides a chapter for each of the five domains to be assessed, including step-by-step guidelines for observing play and interpreting observations, sample worksheets and timetables, and suggestions for ensuring children's optimal performance. A special chapter is devoted to keeping parents involved as integral members of the team throughout the entire assessment/intervention process.Linder, Toni W. is the author of 'Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment A Functional Approach to Working With Young Children', published 1993 under ISBN 9781557661623 and ISBN 1557661626.