Summary of Rapid Screener™^: Process

Rapid Screener Feature Summary

Summary:  A secure, HIPPA-compliant, comprehensive multi-rater web-based system for measuring behavior and emotions.
Ages: 0-22.

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: Parents typically require 30-45 minutes; Teacher require 15-30 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.

Validity Analysis:  At the end of each section, raters are presented with a summary of his or her responses and asked to rate how accurately they have been portrayed.  By providing these ratings, clinicians can immediately spot any survey responses that fall below acceptable standards and clarify information prior to important meetings.

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