"It Was Never Really About The Ringstack": Ensuring our assessments and intervention planning are meaningful, functional and useful in the real world!

Participants will understand and be able to explain to families the purpose, relevance, and limitations of tool driven evaluation/assessments.
Participants will understand and be able to explain to families the underlying concepts and functional, everyday meaning or use of various testing items and assessment tasks.
Participants will consider alternative phrasing in their reports, IFSP outcomes and home visit planning/carryover to emphasize real skills in real time. (Functional use of skills needed during everyday family routines)