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 BAENOW
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| Joined: 06 Jan 2003 |
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AKOM assessment
Posted: 31 Oct 2003 09:22 AM |
| Has anyone's child been through the AKOM assessment at the facility in North Carolina? Can you please tell me what you experienced there? Thank you. |
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porthv
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| Joined: 06 Nov 2003 |
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Re: AKOM assessment
Posted: 07 Nov 2003 04:29 PM |
I haven't been through it, but I have just completed the clinician's training re assessments, and can give you an overview. Each of three clinicians (an MD, a psychologist, and a learning specialist) will spend an hour with your child in the morning of the day you are at the clinic. You are encouraged to observe each of the three sessions via a monitor in another room. The student is given breaks between each of the sessions--snacks, restroom, etc. The child will be asked to complete a variety of activities, like hopping, standing still with his/her eyes closed, copying shapes, summarizing paragraphs, finding patterns, etc.
After the three hours are over, you and your child will have time to go out and get lunch while the three clinicians confer. Then in the afternoon, one of the clinicians will meet with you and explain what was learned through the assessment in a process that is called demystification. This demystification is addressed to both the child and the parent(s). A thorough report is completed and mailed, and several follow-up check-ins take place over the next year or so.
Hope that helps! |
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BAENOW
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| Joined: 06 Jan 2003 |
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Re: AKOM assessment
Posted: 11 Nov 2003 09:07 AM |
| THANK YOU!!!! I am so glad there is life on this board! I appreciate your explanation. I would also like to hear from some parents of children who have been through the assessment. What was the educational benefit? Did the outcome justify the cost for the assessment? Did the child see benefit in the assessment - my son is 13. Thanks |
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Re: AKOM assessment
Posted: 23 Sep 2007 07:57 PM |
| We had our daughter eveluated by an excellent educational psychologist when she was in fourth grade. It is much like what was described earlier. I wish I had known about AKOM then. Our biggest problem has been getting the school to act on the recommendations. I have come to believe that they do not know what to do. If a child is "classified" they seem to respond, but if a child,like mine, has a problem that is not severe they are left on their own. If anyone has advice on getting a school system to recognize learning differences I would love to hear about it. |
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suhrk
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| Joined: 11 Jan 2006 |
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Re: AKOM assessment
Posted: 29 Sep 2008 09:09 PM |
| I am a teacher at a private school. We work closely with the public school district who is responsible for testing children for a variety of educational concerns. As teachers, there are times when our "gut" knows that there is something amiss with a child's learning but because we are not licsensed psycologists or therapists we must be extremely careful in the words we choose in conferencing with parents. We know when a child is not learning to their potential but find ourselves very often just as confused as parents as to why a child doesn't qualify for additional resource services. Many of our parents end up finding private help on top of paying high tuition costs. For other parents that is not a financial option and they find themselves battling for services with the public schools. Therefore, the responsiblilty falls between the general classroom teacher and the parent to work closely together to meet the child's needs. It all comes down to frequent communication, educating oneself through materials such as those put out by AKOM, the willingness to try new approaches, and a little "give and take" on both sides. Just a thought..... |
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