Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: Evidence-Based Practices with Dr. Benjamin Lovett

Students with disabilities often receive extra time, a separate room, breaks, or even a test read to them, but school-based teams rarely feel fully confident in making decisions about these accommodations. Must every student with ADHD get a separate location for testing? Should accommodations be given for anxiety? Questions like these are even more difficult to address when schools feel pressure from families, private evaluators, and occasionally attorneys! In this presentation, Dr. Lovett will cover the most important aspects of the legal framework for testing accommodations, and then cover relevant research studies on accommodations--research that many decision-makers have not seen. The presentation concludes with guidance for legally defensible, evidence-based practices in accommodation decision-making.

This workshop will not be recorded.

Dr. Ben Lovett is a Professor in the School Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches courses in assessment and the legal and ethical aspects of school psychology practice. He has over 100 publications in psychology and education, including his book Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (APA Press), and more recently Practical Psychometrics (Guilford) and Overcoming Test Anxiety (Guilford). He serves as a consultant to testing agencies and schools on issues related to accommodations, and occasionally serves as an expert witness in accommodations cases. He is also a licensed psychologist and conducts evidence-based psychotherapy for test anxiety.

This course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LEPs, LMFTs, LPCCs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. This course also qualifies for 3 hours of continuing professional development for Nationally Certified School Psychologists, under provider number 1025. CASP maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

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