Woodcock-Johnson IV: Reports, Recommendations, and Strategies

Includes online access to new, customizable WJ IV score tables, graphs, and forms for clinicians

Woodcock-Johnson IV: Reports, Recommendations, and Strategies offers psychologists, clinicians, and educators an essential resource for preparing and writing psychological and educational reports after administering the Woodcock-Johnson IV. Written by Drs. Nancy Mather and Lynne E. Jaffe, this text enhances comprehension and use of this instrument and its many interpretive features. This book offers helpful information for understanding and using the WJ IV scores, provides tips to facilitate interpretation of test results, and includes sample diagnostic reports of students with various educational needs from kindergarten to the postsecondary level. The book also provides a wide variety of recommendations for cognitive abilities; oral language; and the achievement areas of reading, written language, and mathematics. It also provides guidelines for evaluators and recommendations focused on special populations, such as sensory impairments, autism, English Language Learners, and gifted and twice exceptional students, as well as recommendations for the use of assistive technology. The final section provides descriptions of the academic and behavioral strategies mentioned in the reports and recommendations. The unique access code included with each book allows access to downloadable, easy-to-customize score tables, graphs, and forms.

This essential guide

• Facilitates the use and interpretation of the WJ IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Tests of Oral
  Language, and Tests of Achievement
• Explains scores and various interpretive features
• Offers a variety of types of diagnostic reports
• Provides a wide variety of educational recommendations and evidence-based strategies

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