Assess or Evaluate? ~ That Is the Question

by | Oct 14, 2018 | Uncategorized

By:  Carol Kramer, Northeast Regional Representative for WSPA            Many years ago the Wyoming State Department of Education requested feedback from some of us in the trenches regarding the Chapter 7 Rules and Regulations Governing Services for Children with...

Dyslexia

by | Feb 20, 2018 | Uncategorized

***Post written by Dustan Blair, Ed.S School Psychologist USCD# 1, Southwestern Representative for WSPA*** There are several theories or approaches when it comes to the idea of the specific learning disability of dyslexia. Our district has been in deep discussion...

To IQ Test or Not To IQ Test?

by | Feb 11, 2018 | Uncategorized

***This post was written by Erin Hanson, Government and Professional Relations Committee State Liaison for WSPA*** This is a continual debate I have with myself from my graduate training in school psychology until present day practice in the field.  Even tabling the...

Some Things Never Change

by | Jan 29, 2018 | Uncategorized

***This post was written by Joe Palladino, Legislative Chair and Central Region Representative for WSPA*** When I got out of graduate school in the late seventies I worked a year in West Virginia. The testing I did was Binet after Binet after WISC-R after WISC-R  All...