• PMD: 8
• Cost: Included in Registration
• Skill Level: Introduction
• Poster Session 1: Promoting Diversity and Multicultural Competence in School Psychology

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

1. understand how to reduce cultural load that can impact assessments designed to identify low incidence disabilities;
2. build skills in the value of understanding culture over linguistic translation in psychological assessments; and
3. connect stakeholders for students in education that rely on psychological assessment to improve educational outcomes.

Description

This poster presentation will identify various ways cultural load can impact psychological assessments and help identify low incidence disabilities in culturally diverse student populations.

Presenter(s)

T Donovan Richardson, Temple University
Nathaniel E. Paley, Temple University