Webinars

Join us at our virtual Focus events! These casual and informative, one-hour Zoom events bring together educators, allied professionals, and Pearson product experts to collaborate on how to make each season of your school year or practice a success. Learn about top tools, get to know your assessment consultant, and get your questions answered by registering for our upcoming events today!

This webinar presentation provides an introductory overview of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), the most up-to-date broadband measure of normal-range personality traits. The test coauthor describes the methods used to develop the MPQ and provides a brief history on research use of the test. Dr. Sellbom also covers information on scale descriptions, normative data, and samples of the MPQ Score Report and MPQ Police Preemployment Interpretive Report (PPIR).

Join Process Assessment of the Learner (PAL) author, Virginia Wise Berninger, PhD, as she provides an overview of the model for screen/intervene, problem-solving consultations. She will cover differential diagnosis/specialized instruction for dysgraphia, dyslexia, and OWL-LD in the Revised PAL-II User Guide for Reading and Writing and for dyscalculia in the Revised PAL-II User Guide for Math. The Revised PAL Instructional Materials will also be discussed.  

This webinar will discuss developmental trauma and vulnerability to PTSD. It will dive into conceptualization, assessment, and treatment considerations as it pertains to PTSD.

Difficulties with communication, language, and social skills are common concerns for individuals diagnosed with ASD. While some individuals’ communication and language difficulties are subtle, and other individuals are severe, early identification in all cases provides the best opportunity for improvement. During this webinar we will focus on assessments based on different ages and language ability levels.

Learn about how the DAS-II is unique to other assessments and can help meet the needs of diverse populations that you serve.    

School professionals are on the front line of addressing the current mental health crisis among children and adolescents. In this webinar, we will demonstrate the process of identifying and addressing emotional, behavioural, and mental health concerns through screening, assessments, interventions, and progress monitoring.  

An interactive panel discussion featuring three expert occupational therapists who will discuss their recent research in the field of autism, moderated by Pearson OT Research Director, Elizabeth Munsell, PhD, OTR/L  

The question of whether true adaptive behavior profiles in persons with autism spectrum disorder exists has been discussed in the literature for decades. This webinar will explore if, and how, adaptive functioning profiles of individuals with ASD differ from typical normative samples.

This webinar will focus on the BBCS–4:R and BSRA–4, which are early childhood assessments used to assess children’s understanding of a wide range of language concepts used in daily classroom conversations, teacher directions, and school curricula. Both assessments will be released in November 2022.