Four factors that need to be considered are;
• Confidentiality - When assessing a child or young person it is important to gain the permission of parents/carers as well as the young person themselves if they are old enough to understand. You should always make sure that notes of assessments are kept safe and private & only discuss the assessment with the correct members of staff. If training and you want to use an assessment as evidence than no names should be used on generic references such as Child A.
• Disabilities or Special Requirements – Some children, such as someone who is dyslexic, may need extra time to complete tasks so it is important to know if the child being assessed has any such requirements so he/she’s abilities don’t get underestimated.
When looking at children and young people’s development it is important to recognise and respond to concerns to ensure that the child or young person receives the help and assistance needed.
Practitioners have a legal duty of confidence with regards to person information that they hold about children young people and their families. Any information you receive about young people and their families. In my work setting information should only be shared with professionals, all information child protection records should be kept securely. These are kept behind the manager’s desk on a tall shelf so that children can’t access them. Personal information should only be disclosed to third parties such as social services after obtaining the consent to who the information relates to in some child protection matters but it may not be possible to obtain consent. The data protection act 1998 allow allegation without consent in some circumstances for example to detect and prevent crime, to apprehend prosecute and offender.
A child will be assessed by an educational psychologist if there are concerns about their intellectual, communication and behavioural development. Assessments can be arranged by the SENCO or independently. The aim of the assessments is to find out why the child is not progressing and what support is needed in order for them to progress. Specific learning difficulties are often identified in this way such as Dyslexia, AHAD, Dyspraxia. Support and targets for the child are then set to help them achieve. The outcome of the assessments may involve the child referred to other professionals e.g. occupational therapist, optometrist, speech and language therapist, psychiatrist. The psychologist will advise the school on how to promote development for example, keeping verbal instructions simple. Keep stories and group activities short to match attention span.
A/c 1.2 The benefit of using a child centred model of assessment and planning is that you concentrate on the person and their specific and individual set of needs and circumstances. A child centred model promotes the rights of the child and allows them to communicate and say what they want for themselves. When children are moved to make the correct choice and take a lead using this type of assessment they tend to succeed as they develop their needs. Children and young people’s needs can be identified through observation and the sharing of information between those that are involved in the care of the young people or children. The parents and class teachers are the best places to identify individual needs because the young people spend more time at school and home than they do anywhere else. School/ home visits, review meetings, hospital consultations are some of the
When assessing a child you must be careful to take into account confidentiality before carrying out an observation you must have parents and the settings permission and not to leave confidential material lying around they must be secured in a locked cabinet. Only talk to authorized personal about
There are many political views concerning abortion in the UK, Downing Street has said there are no plans to change the legal limit on abortions after the health secretary Jeremy Hunt said that he would support a reduction form 24 weeks to 12 weeks. The department of health said that 91% of abortions are performed under 13 weeks which is what Hunt wanted. David Cameron argued that he would personally favour a modest reduction form 24, he believed that there is a medical argument for that, he said “I don't agree with the 12-week limit and that's not the government's policy”. The conservative party said that Jeremy Hunt has not used his position to bring that about, accepting that such change is a matter for private members, not government legislation.
When classifying the child who require special education and related services. By law, the first evaluation of the child must be “complete individually.” If the child is having difficulty in school, and “why” is important. Taking into consideration that the child may have a disability. So, according to law, schools have to provide special support to eligible children with disabilities. This sort of help is called “”special education” and correlated services. Once a child is assessed and determined to be entitled,the inquiry concentrates on are, does the child have a disability that
The typical consumer for my cereal will be kids (ages 7-12). It won’t be aimed towards any specific gender it's just more of a preference thing. This cereal will be good for kids that love cereal for the morning because the cereal will include some sugar so it will be taste good to the children and it will also include some nutrients so that the children can have a sweet and healthy breakfast. Also including nutrients will also have the parents leading towards buying this cereal for their children in the morning because it's health. In terms of ethnicity and culture it won't really be aimed at and ethnicity and or culture in specirfic. Children that will be consuming this will not have an income and will still be living at home with their parents
Factors that might affect a child's performance contain cultural variances and language barriers, parents do not have books to read to their child and a child's lack of communication with other children. Therefore, children requires understanding to the background of the child, and knowledge of testing boundaries and procedures with children. Informal calm settings where the child could be as much at comfort as possible are suggested when doing assessment. Evaluation of the older usually varies from a standard medical evaluation. Older patients, particularly those who are very old or weak, taking a history and physical examination might have to be done at different periods, and physical examination could require two sessions since patients become exhausted. The older too have different, often additional complicated health care problems, such as multiple illnesses, which might require use of many medications and therefore greater possibility of a high-risk drug has been
‘Throughout the process of assessment, professionals should collect evidence of each child’s learning and development and analyse and interpret it to make
(2006-2017). Screenings are designed to help identify children who need further assessments to determine the needs for health or other special services. The idea behind screening is to assess large groups of children quickly, to identify the few who will benefit from a more comprehensive and thorough assessment in the areas where problems are identified. (Slentz, K.L., Early, D.M.,& McKenna,M. (2008) Screening tests have relatively few items, so information is gathered only on major indicators of development and learning. Screeners normally have a cut-off score in which, if a student falls below the cut off score in motor and social domains but also fall below in cognitive and communication, it may indicate potential problems in language development. Students who
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The target of requiring engaging in assessments is to enhance the achievement for kids with disabilities. However, using standardized tests have negative impact for some kids with disabilities like kids with communication, language, and physical problems and for young kids because these tests do not define intervention needs.
Permission from the parent was gained before the interview was conducted (Appendix 1). All privacy will be retained and therefore for the purpose of this learning profile, the child will be referred to as Child A.
However, the assessments for these preschoolers, infants and toddlers were not correct or appropriate because of the instruments that were used to diagnose these children were not accurate. Furthermore, the person conducting the assessments was considered to be a stranger to these children and this would have the children feeling uncomfortable while being assessed. On the other hand these children were not identified clearly but were however, accepted into the earlier programs for special educational services. Situations like these have paved the way for the laws of IDEA, 2004, so that these federal mandates would form and shape the special educational services to make the determinations for any and all requirements of children having special needs. IDEA, 2004 has set guidelines and requirements that were mandated to determine the eligibility of children having special needs. The requirements of having a present disability before any services would be rendered with the required usage of the appropriate and proper instruments for diagnosing and procedures for children with special needs (IDEA, 2004).