BRIGANCE Early Childhood Screens III,
3 hours
The BRIGANCE Infant and Toddler Screens III is an individual criterion-referenced and norm-referenced screening assessment designed to assess general development across a range of skills in children from birth through the end of the first-grade year (seven years, six months). Skills within the screen include: Fine Motor, Gross Motor, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Self-Help, and Social and Emotional skills. Test time is 15 minutes. Designed specifically to obtain a broad sampling of a child's development and skills, this valuable assessment instrument provides percentile ranks, standard scores, and age equivalent scores. Assessments from the Infant & Toddler Screen are criterion-referenced, curriculum-referenced, and norm-referenced. Accommodations are made for infants born prematurely (until age 2). The Screen also has adjustments and separate cutoffs for children at psychosocial risks. The Screen meets I.D.E.A. requirements and the needs of a host of early childhood programs, including Early Head Start, Head Start, Early Intervention, Day Care, Pre-School Programs, School Programs, and health care settings.
In addition, the Brigance helps:
· Diagnose delays, disabilities, giftedness and other exceptionalities
· Determine present level of performance
· Write IFSP’s & IEP’s and monitor progress
· Produce scoring
· Support alternate assessment needs
Course intent: To provide early intervention therapists with a focused understanding of the Brigance assessment instrument that both fast-tracks their ability to process and assimilate their understand of this imperative fine and gross motor tool, as well as its analysis of the social emotional and language delays for infant or toddler, while testing their understanding prior to its application in the clinical setting. Relevance to early intervention: Occupational & physical therapists as well as social workers, special educators and speech language pathologists in the early intervention setting are on the front line of treating children's adaptive, fine, or gross motor dysfunction, as well as deficits in language and social-emotional domains. The Brigance is an invaluable norm-referenced evaluation instrument critical to any initial evaluation and serves as a baseline for improvement in all other subsequent evaluations to document progress. Applicable in the visiting the home in the early intervention setting, facility-based setting, or pre-school settings, this short and helpful course will assist the early intervention provider to navigate through the maze of material offered with the classical edition of the course. Provider will be able to: identify deficits in the motor, language, social emotional and adaptive domains for both the clinical and educational settings so as to set future goals and outcomes for the child in the early intervention and pre-school setting.