NEW ECI Website and Individualization Workshop

1. NEW ECI Website and Individualization Workshop September 22-23, 2005 Juniper Gardens Children’s Project Presenters: Jay Buzhardt & Charlie Greenwood

2. 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 )

3. 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

4. Sponsors • Office of Special Education Programs, USDE • SRS, Kansas • The Kansas Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Center • Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies

5. 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

6. Improved and Added Web Features • Better security • Tools based on user testing • Greater reliability, fewer errors

7. The IGDI Home Page Automated password update Descriptions of all IGDI measures. What they measure, how they’ve been tested, and how to use and score them Printable forms for conducting and scoring assessments 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

8. 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

9. What You Can Do With the Data System Data Entry Personnel (most restricted level) Edit and add children to the system Edit, add, browse, ECI data (Primary and Reliability) Child reports Update your account

10. What You Can Do With the Data System Assessor Personnel (Need to be certified) Edit/add children, activate/deactivate children Edit, add, browse, ECI data (Primary and Reliability) Child reports Update your account

11. What You Can Do With the Data System Program Coordinator/Director Edit and add children to the system activate/deactivate children Edit, add, browse, ECI data (Primary and Reliability) Child and Program Reports Edit program Add, modify, delete users Personalize your password/username

12. 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’)

13. ECI Reports and What They Contain • Get the Results NOW! • Individual Child Reports • Program- and Project-level Reports

14. The Big Picture Perspective

15. 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)

16. Report Tool

17. Child’s Data Table Child’s Data Summary

18. 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)

19. Total Communication Graph 36 Mos Expectation Gray Zone (Max Scores) Child’s Observed Trajectory Child’s Forecasted Growth Rate (Yellow) Normative Trajectory Below Average (-1.5 SD) Trajectory

20. 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

21. Gestures Graph Child’s Observed Trajectory Normative Trajectory

22. Vocalizations Graph

23. Single Words Graph

24. Multiple Words Graph

25. 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

26. Communication (ECI) Tools Communication Tool Screen

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

28. Order All Graphs in Program Displayed Show This Child’s Key Skill Elements

29. Program- and Project-level Reports • Click Reports to find: • Assessor Information • Assessor List and Description • Inter-observer Reliability (Agreement) Information

30. Click Reports, Select Full Report

32. All Assessor Information

33. Assessor’s Cumulative Reliability

34. 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

35. All Following Data for Active Only Child Enrollment Information

36. 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

38. Program– and Project-level Reports (Continued) Data Collected Facts • Children with ECI Data • House/Barn Usage • Languages of Administration • Intervention Changes Summary

39. Child Progress Information

41. Intervention Changes Occurring

42. 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

43. Total Communication Distribution Fluent 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).

44. Communication Proficiency Table

47. Total Communication – Program Level

48. 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