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A 5 page paper that begins with a brief description of a student. The rest of the paper discusses assessment for the child. The paper discusses medical versus educational contexts for psychological testing referrals. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and Mrs. Torres, who plan to adopt him. Presenting issues include low performance academically with information processing and information organizing deficits and memory issues. Language arts is especially difficult. Carlos
acknowledges he remembers more when he is interested and his memory depends on the time of day. Mrs. Torres thinks Carlos is immature and starved for attention. He never
talks about his own experiences, instead, the stories he reports are from TV, movies and video games, thus, there is a concern he is not able to distinguish between reality
and fantasy. The primary reason for assessing Carlos is to determine his overall intellectual ability, his academic abilities, and his memory functioning. These are the areas of concern. The referral
question would be: Assess general intellectual capabilities, assess competencies in reading and mathematics; and assess memory processing. It should be stated that often something shows up during the testing process
that causes the psychologist to pursue something else that is relevant and important in terms of understanding a childs abilities. The logical setting for psychometric evaluation is in the educational
setting. The foster parents and the teachers need to know if Carlos has any learning disability that is impeding his academic progress. A referral would be made to the psychologist
by the teacher although legally, the parents can make this referral. In the educational setting, a psychologist would determine exactly which assessments to perform based on the reasons for the
referral (Growth-Marnat, 2009). As this author explains, the psychologist will first observe the child in different settings, such as in the classroom, on the playground, and in the cafeteria. The
psychologist would want to observe Carlos during different subject areas, e.g., during language arts and during math. No behavior problems are reported for Carlos, thus, the assessment will focus
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