Understanding the SPED Assessment Process online discussion

Weinfeld Education Group

Date: Thursday, December 15th, 2022

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location: Virtual

Cost: Free

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Join the amazingly talented Amy Mounce, Educational Consultant for Weinfeld Education Group as she unpacks the special education assessment process and everything parents need to know about assessments and their role in the special education process.

Amy Mounce is an experienced special educator, university instructor, educational diagnostician, and educator/parent trainer. Leveraging experience as a teacher in public and private institutions at multiple levels, as a consultant and certified special educator she has collaborated with families and educators to evaluate and create customized educational programs for individual students.

She has worked with a variety of children with disabilities including; Specific Learning Disabilities, AD/HD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Other Health Impairment, Intellectual Disabilities, and Speech and Language, Vision and Hearing Impairments. Her expertise in administering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative educational assessments result in refined education programs which best utilize students’ strengths and support deficits. She also creates and administers curriculum based assessments permitting individual education program progress monitoring against state curriculum standards and goals.

Her interests and past presentations at conferences and workshops include empowering parents to advocate for their children, effective programming for inclusion settings, IEP/504 development, universal design for learning, integrating assistive technology and formal/informal assessments. Amy earned a Master's degree in Learning Disabilities from Teachers College, Columbia University, a Master’s degree in Educational Administration from University of South Carolina and a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from American University. In her free time, Amy enjoys spending time outdoors, exercising and exploring the Washington, D.C. area with her husband and two children.