{"id":21059,"date":"2017-02-15T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=21059"},"modified":"2017-02-17T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:38:08","slug":"attention-parents-we-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/attention-parents-we-need-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention Parents: We Need Your help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Attention%20Parents%3A%20We%20Need%20Your%20help%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>If you have a child who receives special education services, you&#8217;ve probably received a copy of a psychological report on your child. If you are like most parents, you had trouble understanding what the report said and what it meant.<\/p>\n<p>The average psycho-educational evaluation is written at or above the 16th grade level so it isn&#8217;t surprising that you were confused. The people who need to understand the findings of your child&#8217;s evaluation &#8211; you and your child&#8217;s teachers &#8211; say psychological reports are not helpful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21158\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/woman.study_.laptop.sm_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21158\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/woman.study_.laptop.sm_.jpg\" alt=\"Mom studying evaluation report\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/woman.study_.laptop.sm_.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/woman.study_.laptop.sm_-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mom tries to understand recent evaluation report from the school<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John Hite, a friend who is in graduate school, developed a survey about evaluations, If you meet the criteria to participate, please give us a hand and take the survey. The results may be used to improve psychological reports so parents and teachers can understand their findings. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Criteria for participation<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. You must have a child between ages 3 and 21<br \/>\nAND<br \/>\n2. Your child had a psycho-educational or psychological evaluation within the last year OR you considered referring your child for an evaluation within the last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time commitment<\/strong><br \/>\nThe survey takes approximately 15 minutes. It involves reading two purposely shortened reports, then answering questions (all online).\u00a0The study is anonymous &#8211; you will not be asked to provide any personal information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to survey<\/strong><br \/>\nPlease click this link to begin the study:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/qCKzoS\">goo.gl\/qCKzoS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or copy and paste this link \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/qCKzoS\">goo.gl\/qCKzoS<\/a>\u00a0 into your browser (Chrome, Safari, etc)<\/p>\n<p>After you click the link, you will go to a page that describes the study. You will be asked to click a consent button that you voluntarily agree to participate in the study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please share!<\/strong> If you participate and if you don&#8217;t meet the criteria to participate, we hope you will forward the link to this page about the survey to others who may qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for your help!<\/p>\n<p>Pete and Pam Wright &#8211; at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\">Wrightslaw.com<\/a><br \/>\n&amp;<br \/>\nJohn Hite &#8211; Doctoral Candidate in School Psychology<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:john_hite@williamjames.edu\">john_hite@williamjames.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a child who receives special education services, you&#8217;ve probably received a copy of a psychological report on your child. If you are like most parents, you had <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/attention-parents-we-need-your-help\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,63],"tags":[1451,971,31,1450,1449],"class_list":["post-21059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assessment","category-independent-evaluations","tag-evaluation-reports","tag-evaluation-results-and-recommendations","tag-evaluations","tag-john-hite","tag-survey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21059"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21173,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059\/revisions\/21173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}