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Pilgrim Area Collaborative

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Assessment & Evaluation

PACES ~ Pilgrim Area Collaborative Extended Services

Assessments and Evaluations

PACES provides comprehensive, individualized assessments and evaluations to help school teams better understand a student's strengths, needs, and current level of functioning. Our goal is to provide meaningful information that supports educational planning, guides instruction and intervention, and helps teams develop appropriate services, supports, and goals. Recommendations are designed to be practical, individualized, and directly connected to the student's educational programming and identified areas of need. 

Our assessment process considers the whole student and, when appropriate, examines skills and needs across school, home, community, vocational, and post-secondary environments. Evaluations may include record review, interviews, observations, standardized and criterion-referenced measures, data collection, and collaboration with families, educators, and other members of the student's team.  

PACES offers assessments and evaluations in areas including: 

  • Home Assessment 

  • Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) – School and/or Home 

  • Social-Cognitive/Social-Emotional Assessment 

  • Sensory Assessment 

  • School Refusal/School Avoidance Assessment 

  • Adaptive Behavior Assessment 

  • Transition Assessment 

  • College Readiness Assessment 

  • Occupational Therapy (OT) Evaluation 

  • Speech and Language Evaluation 

  • Reading Evaluation 

  • Academic Achievement Evaluation 

  • Psychological Evaluation 
     

Click here for the PACES Assessment & Evaluation Request Form

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Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs) 

PACES also conducts Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs) in a variety of specialty areas. Families and school districts are welcome to contact PACES to discuss available evaluation services and determine whether our evaluators can meet the student's individual needs. Official IEE requests must be submitted or authorized through the student's Local Education Agency (LEA). 

 

For additional information about PACES assessment and evaluation services, available evaluators, or the referral process, please contact Deb Booth, M.Ed.
508-747-6686 x2701 or dbooth@pilgrimac.org