Evaluation

The evaluation by school personnel may involve the use of one or more tests to help pinpoint the strengths or weaknesses that a child may be experiencing. The tests will be administered by appropriately certified school personnel, which may include teachers, school nurses, school psychologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and other specialists. The tests fall into general categories.

• Intelligence tests — measure a student's ability to perform or to succeed in school activities.
• Achievement tests — measure actual functioning ability in specific subjects (i.e., reading, mathematics and spelling).
• Auditory and visual-motor development tests — measure the ways the student will learn best (by seeing, writing or hearing).
• Personality / projective tests — measure or give insight into the child's relationships with himself or others.
• Behavior rating scales — measure emotional factors that may affect the child's learning.
• Language tests — measure receptive and expressive language skills.
• Speech testing — measures the ability to articulate sounds clearly or to use appropriate rhythm or voice quality in speaking.
• Hearing tests — measure hearing and/or response of the middle ear to sound.
• Sensory motor testing — measures visual perception, motor ability and perceptual feedback as it affects the educational performance of the child.