Hello This is an informational posting for professionals seeing APH now carrying large print materials for the Woodcock Johnson IV (achievement battery). I was quite excited to learn this as the WJ-III Braille versions (contracted and uncontracted) were a god-send. Well, a TVI ordered the LP materials and I was looking for a district that had the scoring program - no districts that I work with uses the WJ-IV. So I called Houghton Mifflin to ask about paying to score - WELL, in order to use the LP materials that APH has YOU HAVE TO BUY THE WHOLE TEST KIT from Houghton Mifflin, along with a fairly costly scoring program. This is cost prohibitive for a solo practitioner and for most districts as testing budgets are spread over years (I might get a call for LP materials 1 or 2 times a year if that). I may have to contact other test publishing companies to get permission to enlarge materials for those test kits that I have but that can take quite a while to do. So just wanted TVIs looking to support psychologists with materials to be sure to ask the district if they have the Woodcock Johnson IV materials in their districts so that the LP materials can be used - otherwise it makes no sense to have them...unless the state organizations want to buy a kit that would be shared, like other materials are loaned but were are talking about something that is likely over 1000.00 per kit, plus the $399 for 5 protocols and test booklets... Respectfully, Terese Terese Pawletko Ph.D.

Including Lynne Jaffe here so she can explain anything in addition to what I remember from working on the Third Edition (WJ-3-ACH) in braille a number of years ago. It was also required then to have a kit for the print edition. A special Compuscore disk was produced for the braille edition. It was also strongly recommended that examiners have supervised experience with administering and scoring the print edition, and training in the administration of standardized assessment instruments. This is one reason that (on the third edition) that it was recommended that the braille edition be administered by teams (a school psych or resource specialist who would already have those skills) and a TVI who can manage the braille elements (making sure students were reading on the correct lines, signaling the examiner as to the accuracy of brailled responses. Anything more, Lynne? Carol Evans, PhD, former TVI School Psychologist On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 4:47 PM, terese pawletko <teresepawl@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > This is an informational posting for professionals seeing APH now carrying > large print materials for the Woodcock Johnson IV (achievement battery). I > was quite excited to learn this as the WJ-III Braille versions (contracted > and uncontracted) were a god-send. Well, a TVI ordered the LP materials > and I was looking for a district that had the scoring program - no > districts that I work with uses the WJ-IV. So I called Houghton Mifflin to > ask about paying to score - WELL, in order to use the LP materials that APH > has YOU HAVE TO BUY THE WHOLE TEST KIT from Houghton Mifflin, along with a > fairly costly scoring program. This is cost prohibitive for a solo > practitioner and for most districts as testing budgets are spread over > years (I might get a call for LP materials 1 or 2 times a year if that). I > may have to contact other test publishing companies to get permission to > enlarge materials for those test kits that I have but that can take quite a > while to do. > > So just wanted TVIs looking to support psychologists with materials to be > sure to ask the district if they have the Woodcock Johnson IV materials in > their districts so that the LP materials can be used - otherwise it makes > no sense to have them...unless the state organizations want to buy a kit > that would be shared, like other materials are loaned but were are talking > about something that is likely over 1000.00 per kit, plus the $399 for 5 > protocols and test booklets... > > Respectfully, > Terese > Terese Pawletko Ph.D. > > You are subscribed to AERNet, The Association for Education and > Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired Listserv. > > To post a message to all the list members, send an email to > aernet@lists.aerbvi.org. > > Address list requests to: aernet-request@lists.aerbvi.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, go to http://lists.aerbvi.org/ > mailman/listinfo/aernet_lists.aerbvi.org and follow instructions to > unsubscribe. Go to the same address to access the list archives. > _______________________________________________ > AERNet mailing list > AERNet@lists.aerbvi.org > http://lists.aerbvi.org/mailman/listinfo/aernet_lists.aerbvi.org > > -- Carol Evans, PhD School Psychologist (Retired and working in Tooele County School District) *http://www.aph.org/accessible-tests/position-papers/intelligence-testing/full/ <http://www.aph.org/accessible-tests/position-papers/intelligence-testing/full/>*