What role do student and school interviews and case histories play in the assessment of literacy difficulties?
What will be an ideal response?
A case history plays the following role:
• Provides a backdrop for interpreting test results and other data.
• Provides data about the biological and environmental factors that affect the student's physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development.
• Provides information about the child and his or her difficulties that fosters a deeper understanding of the difficulty.
• Provides information from the parents' or caregivers' perspective. Parents will have information about the child's difficulty and its impact not available elsewhere
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