Autism Understanding Beyond IQ Scores Bundle
Webinar & Book
Bundle includes the book "Beyond IQ Scores" and a 2-hour CPE Training Webinar for psychologists, paediatricians and clinicians interested in cognitive and developmental assessment.
About the Book
Would you like to be more confident discussing children and adolescents' thinking styles and interaction styles, not just discuss their psychometric test scores?
Do you want to be neurodiversity-affirming in sharing results and making recommendations?
The Beyond IQ Scores: A handbook for clinicians providing neurodiversity affirming cognitive and developmental assessments is what you need!
This practical handbook for clinicians covers the whole assessment process from first contact to gaining rapport, modifying assessments, interpreting the scores and observations, report-writing and the feedback session.
Topics include:
- Preparing for an assessment
- What are we really doing when we assess a child's development or cognitive ability?
- What is the reason for referral, and how else might the report be used?
- What are we really doing when we assess a child's development or cognitive ability?
- Engaging with children and families
- Preparing the assessment room
- Gaining and maintaining rapport with children who are currently non-speaking
- Engaging children who are reluctant, anxious or self-directed
- Partnering with families through the diagnostic process
- Preparing the assessment room
- Research-based observation of thinking styles and interaction styles
- Lydia's case review research on how Australian Autistic children and adolescents approached cognitive and developmental assessments
- Cognitive Assessment Observation Checklist
- For the observations you identify in the checklist - whether they could be signs of Autism or other developmental differences, questions to ask parents and teachers, further assessments to consider, and recommendations for your report
- Lydia's case review research on how Australian Autistic children and adolescents approached cognitive and developmental assessments
- Modifying assessments
- When and how to modify assessments, and how to write about the modifications in your report
- Analysing response patterns
- What do patterns of errors tell us about the child's skills and strengths?
- Looking for patterns around language and communication, visual problem-solving, attention, working memory, processing speed, fine motor skills, sensory overload, impulsive responding, personal preferences, cognitive flexibility, and adjusting to feedback
- What do patterns of errors tell us about the child's skills and strengths?
- Sharing results and answering questions
- Neurodiversity affirming conversations and common questions
- How to explain developmental delay, intellectual disability, and changes in scores over time
- Neurodiversity affirming conversations and common questions
- Recommendations for your report
- Recommendation Menu
- Assisting parents to seek further assessment and advocate for accommodations
- Recommendation Menu
- Resources
RRP AUD$99.95
About the Webinar
In this webinar, clinical psychologist Lydia Meem takes you through each stage of the assessment process from initial engagement with children and families to the nuanced analysis of responses, observations and neurodiversity-affirming report writing.
Based on case-review research with Australian psychologists, Lydia will take you through her Cognitive Assessment Observation Checklist, and offer suggestions for interpreting presentations in cognitive assessments, including subtle indicators of autism.
Lydia will discuss how to bring families on the assessment journey, modify assessments to allow clients to engage, and provide feedback on brain styles with practical recommendations.
Duration: 2 hours
Access: Online Viewing via Member's Only Site
CPE: 2 CPE Points, Certicate included upon completion
Please note: This event is only accessible to people who have paid for registration. Inviting additional staff or persons to watch with you is strictly prohibited without additional seats purchased.
RRP AUD$198
Presenter/Author: Lydia Meem, Clinical Psychologist
Lydia is a neurodivergent clinical psychologist and a Fellow of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists who loves supporting her awesome clients to find joy, connection, work and study opportunities through their passions. She often acts as an interpreter between neurodivergent and neurotypical people, helping them understand each other’s perspectives. Lydia enjoys tailoring autism strategies to the needs of Autistic individuals of all ages and their families, and empowering them to advocate for appropriate supports and accommodations.
Lydia has been working with neurodivergent individuals since 1998, and as a Registered Psychologist from 2002. She is a popular speaker, presenting at autism conferences around the world. She provides training on neurodiversity affirming approaches for teachers of Autistic students.
Lydia offers group and individual clinical supervision and retreats for psychologists around providing neurodiversity affirming autism assessments, and tailoring supports and accommodations for neurodivergent clients and their families.
Based on her national workshop series, Lydia's book 'Beyond IQ Scores' encourages clinicians to pay attention to the qualitative aspects of psychometric assessment, not just the test scores. The way a child or adolescent approaches the assessment and interacts with the assessor can provide clues for further assessment, supports and accommodations.
