- PMD: 8
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Poster Session 1: Promoting Diversity and Multicultural Competence in School Psychology
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- understand one educational team’s progression of adapting a school-based autism assessment process for a specific Indigenous population;
- understand how they might be able to use a similar method to provide more culturally responsive assessment procedures; and
- identify resources that could be used in their own school-based autism assessment process.
Description
This session will review the process of a rural, interdisciplinary autism evaluation team’s progression of adapting the assessment process to provide a more culturally relevant assessment for Mescalero Apache students.
Presenter(s)
Ann Branscum, Region IX Education Cooperative
Chasity Hawkins, Region IX Education Cooperative