School Daze: Helping Parents Navigate Educational Services- Early Childhood Assessment

1.75 NAPNAP Contact Hour. This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP Members and SDBP Members. This continuing education activity rate is $17.5 for NAPNAP Members and SDBP Members. For non- members, this continuing education activity rate is $35. Have you ever had questions about IEPs? School based evaluations? The differences between early intervention and school based services? How about understanding all the scores you see on various standardized
assessments? Confused about z-scores, t-scores, and standard deviations?
Want to learn how to help parents advocate for their child’s educational needs?
Then this is the learning opportunity for you!

The Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics and the National Association of Pediatric
Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) present a case-based approach to psycho-educational testing, developmental assessment, and optimizing educational outcomes for children with developmental/behavioral challenges.

The following courses are part of two days Symposium presentation. They may be taken individually.  If you would like to benefit from following the case study, as it unfolds, we recommend that you participate in these courses in the following order: 
1. School Daze: Helping Parents Navigate Educational Services- Early Childhood Assessment (This course)
2. School Daze: Helping Parents Navigate Educational Services- Transition from Early Intervention Service Agency to Local School District

This continuing education activity is administered by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) as an Agency providing continuing education credit. Individuals who complete this program will be awarded 1.75 NAPNAP contact hours.

IMPORTANT: This continuing education activity is offered at a reduced rate to NAPNAP and SDBP Members. You must be logged in using your NAPNAP Username and Password to be recognized as a Member of NAPNAP. If you are a current member of NAPNAP, and you are being asked to purchase this activity at the Non-Member rate, please contact the NAPNAP National Office at (877) 662-7627 to request assistance prior to entering any payment information. If you are a current member of SDBP, and you are being asked to purchase this activity at the Non-member rate, please contact the SDBP National Office at 703-556-9222 to request assistance with obtaining the member discount code. 

Participants are forbidden to reproduce, republish, redistribute, or resell this course in any other form. For copyright-related questions, please email your question to: ce@napnap.org

Copyright 2021© by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) and Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP)

Keywords: ADHD, psychopharmacology, developmental, behavioral

Target Audience

Pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses
Advanced practice clinicians in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and mental health
Primary care providers, including nurse practitioners, physician assistants, general pediatricians
and family practice physicians
NP/PA students

 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the symposium, learners will be able to:

  1. Summarize the 2020 AAP guidelines for developmental surveillance, screening, and assessment.
  2. Explain the psychometric properties and use of standardized screening and assessment tools. 
  3. Interpret results of developmental and educational assessments.
  4. Identify the important elements of an Individual Family Services Plan (IFSP) and Individual Education Plan (IEP). 
  5. Advocate for families using a strength based approach when collaborating with the educational system.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.75 Contact hours
Course opens: 
05/21/2021
Course expires: 
06/30/2022
Cost:
$35.00
Rating: 
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Adiaha Spinks-Franklin, MD, MPH
Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine

Sadiqa Cash, PhD
Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics & Autism Center
Texas Children’s Hospital

Anne DeBattista, PhD, CPNP, CPMHS
Stanford Children's Health

Joanne Howard, MSN, MA, RN, CPNP, PMHS
Primary Care Pediatrics
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

This course is accredited for 1.75 NAPNAP Contact Hours, per the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Guidelines. 
NAPNAP is approved as a provider of nursing continuing education by the Georgia Board of Nursing and Florida Department of Health, Division of Quality Assurance, BON Accreditation (CE Provider #: 50-8626). NAPNAP is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 16770.

Available Credit

  • 1.75 Contact hours

Price

Cost:
$35.00
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