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TPBA/TPBI At A Glance
Age range covered:
Infancy to age 6
Areas covered:
Cognitive, social-emotional, communication and language, and sensorimotor development
Components:
Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment, Transdisciplinary Play-Based Intervention, Child and Program Summary Forms, And You Thought They Were Just Playing (video), and Observing Kassandra (video)
Who completes it:
Professionals, with parent involvement throughout the assessment process and IFSP/IEP development
Approximate time:
60–90 minutes for the complete TPBA play session
Validity and reliability:
The reliability and validity of TPBA has been shown in initial studies to meet the criteria needed for tests and to make service eligibility decisions. Preliminary data reveal that TPBA can be as accurate as traditional testing procedures identifying children with developmental delays an in specifying significant areas for intervention.
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Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment and Intervention (TPBA/TPBI)
TPBA/TPBI is an integrated approach to assessment and intervention based on research showing that play encourages children's thinking skills, communication and language abilities, movement proficiency, and social-emotional development.
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- Capitalizes on what children like most and do best — play — for a natural and engaging assessment where children can perform to the best of their ability
- Assessment and intervention volumes explicitly linked so that TPBA assessment data translates into meaningful IFSP/IEPs with the TPBI Planner
- TPBI can easily be implemented in group settings with the Transdisciplinary Play-Based Curriculum Read, Play, and Learn!
- LINKing rating/samples (2 pages / 253K)
How does TPBA / TPBI rate? Check out its entry — including sample forms — in Bagnato, Neisworth, & Munson's LINKing Assessment and Early Intervention.
- Workshops on TPBA and TPBI are available! Details...
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