Report Writing
Review of information gathered via intake interview and review of reports laid out in chronological order
What is the Background Section
This section ties all information in the report together.
What is the summary and impression section?
Scale that has mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15
What is the standard scale
Standard scores of 90 to 109 are called this.
What is Average?
A critical cognitive function that involves the ability to temporarily hold and manipulate information in one's mind
What is Working Memory?
Objective description of what the clinician observes trying to avoid subjective adjectives and interpretation
What is the behavior observation section?
This is the only section where your interpretation is encouraged.
What is the Summary and Impression section?
Scale that has mean of 10 and standard deviation of 3
What is a scaled score?
Scores that are 110 to 119 are called this.
What is High Average?
Speed at which an individual can perceive, understand, and respond to information
What is Processing Speed?
Objective presentation of test performance scores domain by domain
What is the Results section
In the Background section, information is laid out according to this rule
What is in chronological order?
Where the 16th percentile falls
What is one standard deviation below the mean?
Scores in the 70 to 79 range were once classified as Borderline but AACN classification calls them this instead.
What is Below Average?
Poor concentration may impact on test performance and is associated with these common psychiatric diagnoses (name at least three)
What are depression, anxiety and AD/HD
In the Results section, a qualitative description of how the client performed on a select measure should be provided in this circumstance.
What should be done when a score is unusually low?
As a stylistic device, VJH prefers pronouns are not used here.
What is the results section?
Standard score of 70, Scaled score of 4, T score of 30
What are two standard deviations below the mean?
Scores that are more than two standard deviations above the mean are referred to as this.
What is Exceptionally High.
Poor concentration and difficulty sustaining attention that was not observed/experienced during childhood cannot be attributed to this diagnosis
AD/HD
This should be considered, especially when evaluating low scores on Block Design, Arithmetic, Coding, Visual Puzzles, and Symbol Search.
What is the Speed/Accuracy trade off?
This should be written accurately, yet favorably
What are behavioral observations
98th percentile is equivalent to this standard score
98th percentile is equivalent to this standard score
Scores that are 69 and below are referred to as this.
Exceptionally Low.
A common characteristic of students and parents of infants that has significant impact on processing speed and working memory
What is not enough sleep?