The New WISC-5: Clinical Assessment, Application, and Collaboration with Special Educators

The recent release of the fifth edition of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children includes some substantial changes to our field's clinical assessment of broad cognitive functioning.  Drs. Kleiner and Edidin will discuss these changes with a focus on how to understand and interpret the results section of neuropsychological and psychoeducational evaluation reports.  This PLD/SE presentation will include applications of the WISC-5 for special educators and detail the type of collaborations between diagnosticians and educators that best support our students.

Jordi Kleiner, PhD, ET/P is a Psychoeducational Diagnostician, Professional Educational Therapist, and Director of the North Shore Learning Clinic in Glencoe.  He studied at Swarthmore College and Northwestern University, and has been in practice in the area for 15 years.

Jennifer Edidin, PhD is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a specialization in pediatric neuropsychology.  She draws on her training from Middlebury College, Boston University, Loyola University, and University of Chicago, with dozens of publications and presentations to her name.

No registration required.