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Special Needs

How do we overcome the limits of IQ tests?

How do we identify how much our child with Special Needs really can learn?

How do we use assessments to identify which cognitive functions must be enhanced?

How do we enrich Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) to enhance cognitive growth and optimize learning potential?

 

LPAD is suited for use with students 3-years-old through adulthood.

iRi prepares psychologists, social workers, speech therapists, and teachers to use the LPAD with their students and clients.

Special Needs Dynamic Assessment

iRi’s application of Feuerstein’s LEARNING PROPENSITY ASSESSMENT DEVICE (LPAD) measures a student’s drive to think and problem solve. This Dynamic Assessment provides teachers, therapists, and parents with a robust tool for determining the challenged learners’ cognitive modifiability. By identifying the specific cognitive functions and operations that are changeable, the iRi-certified LPAD practitioner can provide the helping adults with the strategies and tools to make real advancement possible.

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The LPAD is comprised of the following components:

Implementation

  • Conducted by a LPAD certified clinician over a period of 12-20 hours, 1:1 with student.

Analysis

  • Identify both well-developed and deficient/fragile/emergent cognitive functions.
    Challenge in thinking and reasoning, construction of knowledge, development of problem solving skills, conceptual understanding, meta-cognition, self-regulatory behavior skills, active learning, variation in structure and formation, transition in learning skills, integration of knowledge, skills, attitude and motivation, and process orientation approach.
  • Assess response to cognitive instructional strategies.
  • Determine the extent to which the profiled weaknesses are amenable to change.
  • Explore nature of investment needed to overcome cognitive deficiencies.

Individualized Education Plan (IEP)

  • Develop a report that addresses the individualized needs based on responsiveness to cognitive instruction and intervention.

Coaching

  • Continual follow-up, consulting services, and progress reporting with schools and clinics.