Essential Elements for Assessing Infants and Preschoolers with Special Needs, Pearson eText -- Access Card

Dr. Mary McLean is Kellner Professor of Early Childhood Education and Professor in the Department of Exceptional Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) where she heads the Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) Program and is Director of the Early Childhood Research Center. She is Past-President of the International Division for Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).  Dr. McLean is co-author of three books on the DEC Recommended Practices: Early intervention/early childhood special education:  Recommended practices (Pro-Ed, 1996), DEC recommended practices for early intervention/early childhood special education (Sopris West, 2000), and DEC recommended practices in early intervention/early childhood special education: A comprehensive guide (Sopris West, 2005). Dr. McLean is also co-author of two additional books on assessment published by Pearson: Assessing infants and preschoolers with special needs (2nd ed., Merrill/Prentice-Hall, 1996), and Assessing infants and preschoolers with special needs (3rd ed., Merrill/Prentice-Hall, 2004).   Dr. Mary Louise Hemmeter is an associate professor in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University. She teaches courses, advises students, and conducts research on early childhood issues, focusing her research on effective instruction, social emotional development and challenging behavior, and translating research to practice. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Early Intervention and serves on the editorial boards of other journals in early childhood special education. She served as President of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Early Childhood. She is co-author on three books: DEC Recommended Practices Workbook: Improving Practices for Young Children with Special Needs and Their Families (Missoula, MT: Division for Early Childhood), Blended practices in early childhood and early childhood special education (Brookes Publishing Co. 2005), and DEC recommended practices in early intervention/early childhood special education, (2nd ed., Sopris West. 2005).   Dr. Patricia Snyder is David Lawrence Jr. Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Studies; Professor in the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies; affiliate Professor of Pediatrics; and Director of the Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida. Dr. Snyder has worked for 35 years in community-based and university settings with a specialization in early intervention and early childhood special education. Initially trained as a speech-language therapist, she has been a direct service provider, teacher, early learning program administrator, faculty member, researcher, and higher education administrator. Dr. Snyder served as editor of the Journal of Early Intervention from 2002-2007 and currently is an associate editor for Topics in Early Childhood Special Education. Her research focuses on early childhood assessment and effective instruction, young children's social-emotional and communication competence, family-centered practices, and early childhood professional development. She has been a recipient of the Mary E. McEvoy Service to the Field award and the Merle B. Karnes Service to the Division award from the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children.

Essential Elements for Assessing Infants and Preschoolers with Special Needs

 

Chapter 1 - Overview and importance of assessment in EI/ECSE     

   Mary McLean

Chapter 2 - Assessment models and methods     

    Patricia Snyder, Mary McLean and Don Bailey

Chapter 3 - Assessing environments   

   Mary Louise Hemmeter and Adrienne Golden

Chapter 4 - Diversity, cultural competence and assessment     

 Marci Hanson and Eleanor Lynch

Chapter 5 - Assessing language and communication

  Ann Kaiser

Chapter 6 - Assessing social competence and play skills     

   Erin Barton

Chapter 7 - Functional assessment of challenging behaviors   

  Mary Louise Hemmeter and Kathleen  Artman Meeker

Chapter 8 - Assessing early academic skills   

Mary Louise Hemmeter and Jessica Hardy

Chapter 9 - Assessing adaptive skills     

   Patricia Snyder, Mary Louise Hemmeter,  Mary McLean and Eva Horn

Chapter 10 - Assessing motor skills     

   Jennifer Kilgo

Chapter 11 - Monitoring child progress    

   Mary Wolery

Chapter 12 - Evidence-based practices in assessment

 Patricia Snyder, Tara McLaughlin and Mary McLean