Resources for School Psychologist
Items and resources I use to improve the lives of students, teachers, and parents.
Excellent comprehensive resource
Provides lesson plans for counseling students with behaviors from:
Trauma
ADHD
Autism
Depression
Conduct Disorder
I often reference this when writing behavior support plans.
Understand how to assess for autism
Using surveys and the ADOS is only the start. This book explains the “ins and outs” of autistic assessment. A wonderful resource for legally compliant psycho-educational reports.
Create and modify PDF
The adobe reader does not allow you to edit PDFs. Acrobat allows editing and the creation of forms. You can also scan documents and use Acrobat’s optical character recognition to make documents searchable for keywords. Great for reviewing those thick files.
Great SST resource
These are perfect for Student Study Team pre-referral interventions. Also a “go to” resources for school psychologists when a teacher or parent asks for suggestions.
Work like its fun
For you or the teacher who returns surveys in a timely manner, these mugs are great. Click on the mug for the funniest report card comments perfectly illustrated with stick people.
My favorite impulse control resource
Teaching impulse control to ADHD students has never been more fun.
Help them explain their feelings
Every psychologist and counseling office should have this poster and use it regularly.
Finally some guidance
Every psychologist should create their own template. However, that template must be legally compliant. Here is how.
Must have
About 85% of students in special education qualify under SLD. This provides methods and directions to ensure legally defensible psycho-educational reports.
Understanding ADHD
An insightful account on what ADHD is and is not. Critical for parents and anyone who has not studied the impact of ADHD.
Complete resource for dyslexia
I cannot stress the importance and usefulness of this book to school psychologist especially in CA where assessing for dyslexia is our responsibility.