Rapid Screener Feature Summary

Summary:  A secure, HIPPA-compliant, comprehensive multi-rater web-based system for measuring behavior and emotions.
Ages: 5-22. (Early Development and Adult Versions currently in development)
Common Diagnoses/Populations:  Asperger's Syndrome, Autism, ADHD/ADD, Executive Functioning Deficits, Learning Disabled, Anxiety Disorders, including Panic Disorder, OCD, Phobias, School Avoidance, Generalized Anxiety/Worrying, and Social Phobia/Shyness, Oppositional and Defiant Behavior, Depression, Somatic Disorders, Schizophrenia, and general Coping Deficits.
Administration Time: 15-60 minutes (80% of raters complete the screener in under 30 minutes).
Scores/Interpretation: Provides a comprehensive, functionally-based social-emotional review of school behaviors that lead to scholastic and social success.  Interfering behaviors are categorized according to intervention-linked clusters.  Individual rater scores provided as well as behavior identified through group consensus.  Levels of agreement between raters and severity levels for behaviors reported.
User Qualification:  Application required (view qualifications)
Author: Bruce M. Gale, PhD, Clinical Psychologist PSY10598 (see bio)

Overview:  A single comprehensive "smart survey" that dynamically interviews teachers, parents, and other professionals with the goal of helping teams understand the degree to which behaviors and social-emotional factors interfere with a student's ability to function in their educational environment.

Features/Benefits:

• Uses a multidimensional approach for comprehensive assessment
• Easily interpretable profiles
• Differentiates between different diagnoses and syndromes based on symptoms clusters
• A useful, comprehensive, tools specifically designed for identifying behavior problems as required by IDEIA 2004, and for developing FAAs, FBAs, BIPs, IEPs, and IPPs.
• Quickly identifies target behaviors occurring in the student's educational program
• Allows different providers to rate behavior in different settings
• Assesses progress over time (by having 2-3 ratings per academic year, can track student changes in emotional and social functioning across settings, providing a comprehensive analysis which can be linked to ongoing interventions)
• Gives parents and teachers a better understanding of children's unique problems
• Facilitates more detailed functional analysis of of behavior occurrences and triggers
• Color-coded interpretation system