NEW ECI Website and Individualization Workshop

September 22-23, 2005

Juniper Gardens Children’s Project

Presenters: Jay Buzhardt & Charlie Greenwood

Agenda

Welcome Introductions Logistics of Meeting

Day 1 - What’s new Day 2 - Individualization

Brief Review of the ECI Review the Agenda Materials (handouts) Access to the NEW Website (www.igdi.ku.edu )

Project Staff

Jay Buzhardt, Ph.D. Judith Carta, Ph.D. Charles Greenwood, Ph.D. Barbara Terry, Ph.D. Dale Walker, Ph.D. Original development team:

Judith Carta, Charles Greenwood, Dale Walker

Jane Atwater, Gayle Luze, Deborah Linebarger, Carol Leitschuh, Ken Parsley, Annessa Staab, Gabe Cline, and Susan Higgins

Sponsors

Office of Special Education Programs, USDE SRS, Kansas The Kansas Mental Retardation and

Developmental Disabilities Research Center Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies

Improved and Added Web Features

New management and data entry tools More control over user accounts and access levels Email notifications of user account updates Personalized Usernames/Passwords

New look for on-demand individual child reports Easier to access

New, on-demand program and project level reports Graphs of Key Skill Elements

Normative ECI data based on over 1300 children Inactive children separated from Active children

Improved and Added Web Features

Better security Tools based on user testing Greater reliability, fewer errors

The IGDI Home PageAutomated

password update

Descriptions of all IGDI measures. What they measure, how they’ve been tested, and how to use

and score them

Training requirements for certification, training videos, PowerPoint presentations, etc.

Reports and presentations of IGDI research, descriptions, and training materials

Send us questions using an online form or give us a call

Printable forms for conducting and scoring assessments

What You Can Do With the Child Data System

Depends on your ‘level’ or ‘role’Levels: Administrators (JGCP Developers)

Project Directors ECI Designated Program

Coordinators/Directors Assessors/Coders

Data Entry These roles can be changed

No need to create a new account if you need to change levels

What You Can Do With the Data SystemData Entry Personnel (most restricted level)

Edit and add children to the system

Update your account

Edit, add, browse, ECI data (Primary

and Reliability)

Child reports

What You Can Do With the Data SystemAssessor Personnel (Need to be certified)

Edit, add, browse, ECI data (Primary

and Reliability)

Edit/add children,activate/deactivate

children

Update your account

Child reports

What You Can Do With the Data System

Edit and add children to the system

activate/deactivate children

Edit programAdd, modify, delete users

Personalize your password/username

Edit, add, browse, ECI data (Primary

and Reliability)

Child and Program Reports

Program Coordinator/Director

Points to Consider When Using the Data System

Case-sensitive login If using old username, use capital letters Email address is important Tips on using ‘Quicklinks’

Select a child before making a selection (except for ‘Add a Child’ and ‘Full Program Report’)

ECI Reports and What They Contain

Get the Results NOW! Individual Child Reports Program- and Project-level Reports

The Big Picture Perspective

Getting Result: Individual Child Reports

Displays and summarizes all data for this child List of ECI observations by date as the rate of:

Gestures Vocalizations Single Words Multiple Words Total Communication List of intervention conditions

Average Scores for Each: Average rate per minute for each (Mean Level All Data) Average “Goes-upness” per month (Slope – The Growth

Factor)

Report Tool

Child’s Data Summary

Child’s Data Table

Individual Child Report (Continued)

Total Communication Graphic, containing: Normative or Bench Mark trajectories Child’s observed progress Intervention changes marked at start Slope (average “goes-uppness” per month)

and estimated future trajectory (yellow line)

36 Mos Expectation

Below Average (-1.5 SD) Trajectory

Child’s Observed Trajectory

Child’s Forecasted

Growth Rate(Yellow)

Gray Zone(Max Scores)

Normative Trajectory

Total Communication Graph

Individual Child Report (Continued)

4 Key Skill Element Graphs Normative trajectory Child’s observed progress

Tools Print the report Copy, Past (to another document) Copy, Paste, Print (Just the graphics) Display and print all children’s reports

Normative Trajectory

Child’s Observed Trajectory

Gestures Graph

Vocalizations Graph

Single Words Graph

Multiple Words Graph

Displaying and Printing Individual Child Results

Option 1: Click Communication Tool, Select a Child’s graph to display Total Communication Graph

4 Key Skills Graphs Display All Children in Program

Option 2: Click Reports Tool, Select Individual Child Report Data Summary Table + Total Communication Graph + 4 Key Skills Graphs for one child as requested

Communication Tool Screen

Communication (ECI) Tools

Quick Links Go-To Tool!! Get there FAST!

Order All Graphs in Program Displayed

Show This Child’s Key Skill Elements

Program- and Project-level Reports

Click Reports to find: Assessor Information

Assessor List and Description Inter-observer Reliability (Agreement) Information

Click Reports, Select Full Report

All Assessor

Information

Assessor’s Cumulative Reliability

Program- and Project-level Reports (Continued)

Child Information (Active Children) Enrollment (Active and Inactive By Age By Gender By Needs (IFSP) By Primary Home Language By Source of Funding

Child Enrollment Information

All Following Data for Active Only

Program- and Project-level Reports (Continued)

Child Information For all Active and Inactive Children

Enrollment (Active and Inactive) For Active Children ONLY

By Age By Gender By Needs (IFSP) By Primary Home Language By Source of Funding

Program– and Project-level Reports (Continued)

Data Collected Facts Children with ECI Data House/Barn Usage Languages of Administration Intervention Changes Summary

Child Progress Information

Intervention Changes Occurring

Child Progress Information

Child Progress Information Communication Distribution for Children in

Program/Project Percentage of Children Whose Progress is On Target

vs. Slightly Below Average, vs. Below Average By age group By Program/Project

Key Skills Program Average Trajectory Total Communication Program Average Trajectory

Total Communication DistributionFluent communicators score 12 per minute and higher (They have all key skills in evidence).

Emerging communicators score between 6 - 12 per minute (They are acquiring words and multiple words).

Novice communicators are children in transition from prelinguistic to spoken language between 0 and 6 per minute. (They are primarily prelinguistic communicators).

Communication Proficiency Table

Total Communication – Program Level

Program Management Questions

Assessor Reports – Indicators of program quality How many assessors are registered appropriately? How many assessors are certified? How many ECI’s have assessors administered? How many reliability checks have been completed? How well do coders agree on what they code?

Management Tools Is your program information current?

Update user information by editing it? Add new staff by enrolling them Inactivate staff who have left