Competencies and Professional Benefits
Students are expected to meet a number of competencies through their involvement in the grant.
These include:
• Knowledge of characteristics of students with LID
• Knowledge and skills in behavioral assessment as applied to students with LID
• Ecological assessment, functional behavior analysis, assessment adaptation
• Knowledge and skills of consultation applied to special educators,
general educators, and the systems level
• Knowledge and skills of academic and life skills instruction
• Community-based instruction
• Life skills planning
• Self-help instruction
• Functional communication
• Functional academics
• Stimulus-based interventions
• Personal futures planning
• Knowledge and skills of interventions for the integration of students with LID
• Understanding of potential influences of cultural and linguistic diversity in planning effective
assessment and intervention strategies
• Dissemination of knowledge, skills, and competencies acquired
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Professional Benefits
This project offers trainees unique coursework and practicum experiences that will benefit their careers as school psychologists in a number of important and distinctive ways. These experiences will provide a base of skills that will place trainees at a substantial advantage over typically trained school psychologists. These many benefits include:
• Substantial in-classroom experiences in special and general education settings
• Attainment of specialized skills in consultation with special and regular education teachers
• Competency as an consultant and advocate for the inclusion of students with LID
• Training as effective assessors and interventionists with students with LID
• Skills at developing and implementing integration/inclusion plans
• Experience disseminating outcomes of the project regionally, statewide, and nationally