Best Practices Manuals
for School Re-entry
Best Practices in Assessment and Programming for Students with Traumatic Brain Injuries_ (1997)
This manual is designed to increase the user's basic understanding and knowledge of traumatic brain injury, give in-depth information about techniques to amend and expand current assessment methods, and provide in-depth information about the reentry process and school programming for students with traumatic brain injury.
This manual is available from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction for $10.00 plus postage and handling. To order, go to http://www2.dpi.state.nc.us/publications_catalog/ec.html.
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The following two publications are available from Lash & Associates (www.lapublishing.com):
A Manual for Managing Special Education for Students with Brain Injury_ by Marilyn Lash, MSW and Bob Cluett ($25.00)
This manual takes the skills used by professional case managers, adapts them for parents and then applies them to special education. Chapters cover the following six fundamental skills for educational management: assessment, information gathering, referral, service coordination, advocacy, and evaluation. This manual gives parents, educators and advocates the information they need about brain injury so they can effectively negotiate and manage special education. It guides the reader with step by step explanations, practical checklists, examples, and worksheets.
An Educator's Manual: What Educator's Need to Know About Students with Brain Injury_ edited by Ronald Savage, Ed.D. and Gary Wolcott, M.Ed. ($20.00)
This manual contains case studies illustrating the needs of school-age children with traumatic brain injuries for parents and school staff.
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Here's a NEW resource from Association of Service Providers Implementing IDEA Reforms in Education (ASPIIRE) IDEA Partnership Project (www.ideapractices.org):
Making Assessment Accommodations: A Toolkit for Educators_ (2000) by the ASPIIRE and ILIAD Partnership Projects,
supported by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education. ($99.00)
This toolkit provides practitioners with an overview of assessment accommodations and modifications. It is organized into five sections:
-Introduction
-Videotape (15 minutes)--Review of commonly used assessments accommodations.
-Practitioner's Guide--Describes commonly used assessments in five areas: timing, scheduling, setting, presentation, and response.
-Administrator's Guide--Discusses implementation considerations including examples.
-Staff Development Activities
For more information or to order, go to http://www.ideapractices.org/ideadepot/makingassessaccom.htm.
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In Wisconsin, the Department of Public Instruction received a grant to address similar issues and from it came a wonderful manual for teachers and a training manual on brain injury. The contact is Sean Mulhern, Department of Public Instruction, 125W Webster Street, Madison, WI 53702 (608)266-3928 email: mulhern@mail.state.wi.us To get a copy of the manual, please contact Sean or myself…
Caroline Feller, M.S.,OTR,CCM
Director of TBI Programs BIAW
2900 N.117th street
Suite 100
Wauwatosa, WI 53222
(414)778-4144
fax:(414)778-0276
email: biawcf@execpc.com