Behavioral and Developmental Profile
A methodology created by Dr. Marcy Willard and Dr. Anna Kroncke to not only diagnose but also to document mental health, developmental, educational, behavioral and social concerns and strengths: A framework used to determine and utilize a child’s profile for greater success now and in the future.
Why is a Behavioral and Developmental Profile Important?
Deeper Understanding of Childs Needs
This profile empowers families to understand their child’s strengths and the areas for intervention and connects families with symptom profiles and education into what is going on with their child.
Aids in Diagnosis and Specialist Help
Profiles will aid the diagnosing clinician in assessing a child by streamlining the process, analyzing data with one click, and automating report writing. This will allow your clinician to evaluate your child in less time, thus reducing those wait times.
Eliminating Delays
Have you ever been told by a professional to wait and see, with this profile we are eliminating delays with the wait and see system and providing families with the strategies to immediately help their child.
Outcome Driven
Profiles are very useful in determining which therapies are best for your child and how to build on specific skills to enhance your child’s life.
Parents as Partners
Parents become partners with your child’s professional team in the ongoing development of their child as opposed to receivers of information.
What will you get from this course
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Attributes will be separated with Concerns into groups. Each group is organized from most significant to least significant within that group.
1. Significant and Moderate Concerns:
a. This group of attributes should most inform actions as related to this profile.
2. Mild Concerns
a. This group of attributes on its own should not be the primary focus.
3. Total All Concerns
a. This combines all Attributes with some level of concern. While you will look first to the Significant and Moderate Attributes, this combined list will allow you to also address Mild Concerns as secondary issues when dealing with professionals, schools, and others.
4. No Concerns
a. The remaining attributes were rated as No Concern. Though they will not be addressed in this Challenges report, you have an opportunity to consider if the No Concerns and Mild Concerns might be current strengths or possible future strengths for your child. This can help you and your family focus on both improving Attributes with Challenges and leveraging Attributes of Strength.
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The report will give you a list of suggested specialists based on your child’s skillset, these specialists can help to further diagnose your child or provide therapies to help your child succeed.
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The report will supply you with a list of attributes that should be considered when getting an IEP, these attributes will help ensure that the learning plan aligns with your child’s specific needs.
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You will have access to all of the data about the 11 areas of evaluation. This information will include how your child scored, clinical information, and links for additional information about each attribute.
About the Course
The Framework
The framework is built upon 11 Areas of Evaluation: Understanding, Learning, Communicating, Socializing, Daily Living, Moving and Sensing, Focusing, Remembering, Organizing, Feeling, Behaving. Specific attributes characterize each of the 11 areas. You will be introduced to the 11 AREAS and the associated 104 Attributes when you completed the survey and receive your child's report.
The Assessment
The developmental and behavioral profile will take from 1-2 hours to complete. You will be required to answer a series of questions about your child as it relates to their every day lives and interactions, there are a total of 104 questions that we will require to produce the report. These questions will have your classify your child’s skillset as High, Medium, Low or None for each skillet. You may consult anyone who may interact with your child in these areas to better answer the questions.
The Report
The comprehensive report that highlights areas of concern, areas of strength, specialists to follow up with, further assessments, and skills that can be included in your child’s IEP. The intention of this profile is to provide you with new information about your child and ways to support them. The 11 areas provide an overview of areas of focus for Clear and logically group the 104 Attributes. When you complete the assessment, it will allow us to rate each specific area based on concern. The level of concern is determined by considering both a parent's rating of the challenge level for each Attribute and Clear's Weighting of the relative significance of each attribute. The report will show the level of concern for all 104 attributes. Once the Attributes are rated, the 11 areas become less of a focus. Mostly because individual Attributes within the same area often have ratings from None to Low to Medium to High. For example, under the area Moving & Sensing, the Repetitive Behavior Attribute may be rated as a High-Level Challenge, but Handwriting, Drawing, and Dexterity are not a Challenge. So, it will be more productive to focus on Repetitive Behavior specifically, not the entire AREA of Moving & Sensing. By assessing your child through these 11 Areas of Evaluation and 104 attributes, you can better understand your child's strengths and challenges.