2021 Intellectual Disability Uncovering, Evaluating, and Cha...

  • Article by Emily Paavola: Protecting People w/ ID from Wrong... 
    • INTRODUCTION
    • Mission & Course Objectives
    • Course Format: How it Works & What to Expect
    • NAPD Academy Confidentiality Agreement
    • WEEK ONE TOPIC: THE LAW OF ID & LEGAL STRATEGY
    • Featured Speaker: Emily Paavola, Esq.
    • Emily's power point: ID Legal Strategy
    • Emily Paavola Presentation (Recorded) - Intro & Le...
    • WEEK ONE: ASSIGNED READING & VIDEOS
    • Landmark US Supreme Court Decisions, including lin...
    • Current Medical Definitions
    • Role & Responsibility of the Capital Defense Team
    • Best Practices for Atkins Investigations: AAIDD
    • Risk Factors: Articulated by the AAIDD
    • Types of Experts Needed to Prepare an ID Claim
    • Tips for Working with ID Experts
    • Storytelling: 3 Case Studies
    • Introduction to Clients (2 min)
    • James: Looks Can be Deceiving (Stereotypes& Maskin...
    • Scope of the Atkins Investigation: Three Generatio...
    • Robert (Three Generation Pedigree) (3 min)
    • WEEK ONE: EXERCISE
    • Assignment: Identify the "Special Risks for Wrongf...
    • Assignment: Risk Factor Chart
    • Week-One Reference Materials
    • Article by Emily Paavola: Protecting People w/ ID ...
    • Information about Tests Commonly Discussed in Atki...
    • A Practitioner’s Guide to Defending Capital Client...
    • Helpful Caselaw & Summaries
    • Sample Pleading: Pre-Trial Motion to Bar Death Pen...
    • Sample risk factor chart: Robert
    • US v. Farad Roland
    • US v. Davis
    • US v. Paul Hardy
    • US v. Antun Lewis
    • US v. Joseph Smith
    • US v. Bryan Nelson
    • US v. Shannon Shields
    • END OF WEEK ONE
    • WEEK TWO TOPIC: "The ID Mindset"
    • Featured Speaker: Juliet Yackel
    • Juliet Yackel Presentation (Recorded) - Stereotype...
    • WEEK TWO: Assigned Reading & Videos
    • Matthew Williams TED Talks (14 min)
    • Common Misconceptions
    • Overcoming Stereotypes
    • College Opportunities for Students with Intellectu...
    • Interviewing Benefactors: "The Benevolent Conspira...
    • Investigating Strengths (James - the "Preacher") (...
    • Identifying supports
    • Tim (supports & benefactors -- and what happens wh...
    • Tim Appears More Capable With Supports (Benefactor...
    • Vulnerability in Co-Defendant Cases
    • Vulnerable to Exploitation & Abuse in Custody and ...
    • Masking: Heightened in a Capital Case
    • WEEK TWO: EXERCISES
    • Assignment: Identify Supports in Your Case
    • Week-Two Reference Materials
    • Link to order the book "The Cloak of Competency"
    • Post High School Outcomes of Adults with Disabilit...
    • Medical Definitions of "The Developmental Period"
    • SAMPLE Supports Chart - Adam Smith
    • Status report re: Robert
    • Measuring Intellectual Functioning and Adaptive Be...
    • California lawmakers vote to expand ban on death p...
    • WEEK THREE: ADAPTIVE FUNCTIONING - Part 1
    • FEATURED SPEAKER: DR. Daniel Reschly
    • Week Three: Assigned Reading & Videos
    • Definition: The Three Domains of Adaptive Function...
    • 4 Key Concepts: Adaptive Functioning
    • Selecting Informants for Adaptive Functioning Inte...
    • Case Example: list of informants interviewed in Ro...
    • The Conceptual Domain
    • Locating School & Special Education Records
    • A Complete Special Education File Includes
    • How to Locate Missing & "Destroyed" Records (5 min...
    • How to Build an Educational History without Record...
    • Birmingham City Schools Letter
    • Reading & Analyzing School Records
    • Case memo: A School Official says the "Broken Syst...
    • Racial Bias: Against Referring Black Males to Spec...
    • The Social Domain
    • Gullibility & Naïveté
    • The Practical Domain
    • Interviewing for Adaptive Functioning
    • Co-Occurring Mental Disorders
    • The Crime
    • WEEK THREE: EXERCISES
    • Assignments this Week: Choose One of the Three Opt...
    • Option #1: Adaptive Functioning Chart
    • Option #2: Educational Snapshot
    • Option 3: Identify areas to investigate in your c...
    • WEEK THREE: REFERENCE MATERIALS
    • Assessing Mild ID: Issues and Best Practices (Book...
    • Reference Materials from Dr. Reschly
    • Sample Educational Snapshot
    • Amicus Brief: Moore v. Texas (most recent USSC cas...
    • Amici Brief from AAIDD and ARC in Moore v. Texas ...
    • Systemic Failure in Los Angeles Schools: Chanda Sm...
    • Systemic Failure in Chicago Schools (Corey H. laws...
    • Corey H. Lawsuit (Chicago - summary of the case)
    • Webster v. Watson (ID case decided on September 22...
    • Pre-hearing Brief filed in Webster
    • WEEK FOUR: ADAPTIVE FUNCTiONING - Part 2
    • FEATURED SPEAKER: Jim Patton
    • WEEK FOUR: ASSIGNED READING & VIDEOS
    • WEEK FOUR: EXERCISES
    • Assignment: Storytelling & Vignettes
    • Assignment: Supporting the Client
    • WEEK FOUR: RESOURCES
    • Informal Adaptive Behavior Inventory (by Jim Patto...
    • Mental Retardation: Determining Eligibility for So...
    • WEEK FIVE: IQ - Measurement of Intellectual Functi...
    • Featured Expert: Dr. Greg Olley
    • Dr. Olley's Powerpoint
    • WEEK FIVE: ASSIGNED READING & VIDEOS
    • IQ Scores: locating all historical scores
    • Raw Data: What is it, How we get it, and Why do we...
    • IQ Scores: Key Concepts (SEM, Flynn Effect, Practi...
    • Three Steps to Examine and "Correct" an IQ Score
    • Example: How to Correct an Obtained IQ Score
    • Multiple IQ Scores
    • First, Investigate!
    • Malingering
    • The Wilson Case: A Federal Judge Shows How It's Do...
    • US v. Ronell Wilson (detailed discussion of IQ sco...
    • Evaluating ID after the Moore v. Texas Redux (best...
    • Texas Forensic Puente 04.10.15.pdf
    • Immigrant guidelines.docx
    • WEEK FIVE: EXERCISES
    • Assignment #1: Practice "Correcting" IQ Scores fro...
    • Assignment #2: "Correct" the obtained IQ scores in...
    • Assignment #3: Update your Atkins Investigation Pl...
    • WEEK FIVE: REFERENCE MATERIALS
    • Evaluating Intellectual Disability: Clinical Asses...
    • Knowledge & Experience Required for Experts in Atk...
    • Behavior in Adult Forensic Cases: Use of Adaptive ...
    • Ethical Implications of Practice Effect: Mental Re...
    • 2013 Burgaleta IQ changes.pdf
    • Vance 1987 Comparison of WISC-R and WAIS-R.pdf
    • Nagle WISC-R and WAIS in EMR 16yo 1979.pdf
    • Rubin 1985 Comparison of WISC-R WAIS-R in MR.pdf
    • Rubin 1990 Follow up comparison of WISC-R WAIS-R.p...
    • simon and clopton WAIS and WAIS-R.pdf
    • 2016 Byre Cross-nationality use of assessment inst...
    • 2017 Drevan Nonverbal and language-reduced measure...
    • WEEK SIX: Storytelling Inside the Case
    • FEATURED SPEAKER: Richard Jasper
    • WEEK SIX: ASSIGNED READING & VIDEOS
    • Story Example: Pre-Natal Risk Factors (3 min)
    • Documenting the Client's Birth (4 min)
    • WEEK SIX: REFERENCE MATERIALS
    • BONUS SESSION: FETAL ALCOHOL
    • Stamping Out Stigma:Establishing the Maternal Alco...
    • Pre-Natal Alcohol Exposure: An assessment strategy...
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Implications for ...
    • Ethnic and cultural factors in identifying Fetal A...
    • Suggestibility and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder...
    • Legal & psychological implications of nondisclosur...
    • Amicus Brief: National Organization of FAS
    • BONUS SESSION: EVALUATING FOREIGN NATIONALS
    • Featured Speakers: Dhyana Fernandez & Joe Flood
    • Presentation in 2020 (Recorded)
    • Intellectual_disability_across_cultures.pdf
    • Role of Culture in the Lives of People with Intell...
    • Cultural Competency
    • BONUS SESSION: THE "ATKINS" QUALIFIED MITIGATION S...
    • Amicus Brief by the American Bar Association (Moor...
    • Amicus Brief American Psychological Association (M...
    • Amicus Brief by APA (Atkins v. Virginia/ McCarver...
    • Amicus Brief: Penry v. Lynaugh (1989)
    • FINAL COURSE EVALUATION
    • Evaluation: Intellectual Disability - Uncovering, ...
    • Mental Retardation: Determining Eligibility for So...
    • How to Become an "Atkins" Qualified Mitigation Spe...
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2021 Intellectual Disability Uncovering, Evaluating, and Changing Outcomes

Content
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Mission & Course Objectives
  • Course Format: How it Works & What to Expect
  • NAPD Academy Confidentiality Agreement
  • WEEK ONE TOPIC: THE LAW OF ID & LEGAL STRATEGY
  • Featured Speaker: Emily Paavola, Esq.
  • Emily's power point: ID Legal Strategy
  • Emily Paavola Presentation (Recorded) - Intro & Legal Overview
  • WEEK ONE: ASSIGNED READING & VIDEOS
  • Landmark US Supreme Court Decisions, including links to the decisions
  • Current Medical Definitions
  • Role & Responsibility of the Capital Defense Team sample
  • Best Practices for Atkins Investigations: AAIDD
  • Risk Factors: Articulated by the AAIDD
  • Types of Experts Needed to Prepare an ID Claim
  • Tips for Working with ID Experts
  • Storytelling: 3 Case Studies
  • Introduction to Clients (2 min)
  • James: Looks Can be Deceiving (Stereotypes& Masking) (3 min)
  • Scope of the Atkins Investigation: Three Generation Pedigree
  • Robert (Three Generation Pedigree) (3 min)
  • WEEK ONE: EXERCISE
  • Assignment: Identify the "Special Risks for Wrongful Execution" in Your Case
  • Assignment: Risk Factor Chart
  • Week-One Reference Materials
  • Article by Emily Paavola: Protecting People w/ ID from Wrongful Execution sample
  • Information about Tests Commonly Discussed in Atkins Cases
  • A Practitioner’s Guide to Defending Capital Clients Who Have Mental Retardation
  • Helpful Caselaw & Summaries
  • Sample Pleading: Pre-Trial Motion to Bar Death Penalty Due to ID
  • Sample risk factor chart: Robert
  • US v. Farad Roland
  • US v. Davis
  • US v. Paul Hardy
  • US v. Antun Lewis
  • US v. Joseph Smith
  • US v. Bryan Nelson
  • US v. Shannon Shields
  • END OF WEEK ONE
  • WEEK TWO TOPIC: "The ID Mindset"
  • Featured Speaker: Juliet Yackel
  • Juliet Yackel Presentation (Recorded) - Stereotypes & Misconceptions
  • WEEK TWO: Assigned Reading & Videos
  • Matthew Williams TED Talks (14 min)
  • Common Misconceptions
  • Overcoming Stereotypes
  • College Opportunities for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (2 min)
  • Interviewing Benefactors: "The Benevolent Conspiracy"
  • Investigating Strengths (James - the "Preacher") (3 min)
  • Identifying supports
  • Tim (supports & benefactors -- and what happens when they are gone) (4 min)
  • Tim Appears More Capable With Supports (Benefactors) (3.5 min)
  • Vulnerability in Co-Defendant Cases
  • Vulnerable to Exploitation & Abuse in Custody and Supports Needed from Team
  • Masking: Heightened in a Capital Case
  • WEEK TWO: EXERCISES
  • Assignment: Identify Supports in Your Case
  • Week-Two Reference Materials
  • Link to order the book "The Cloak of Competency"
  • Post High School Outcomes of Adults with Disabilities
  • Medical Definitions of "The Developmental Period"
  • SAMPLE Supports Chart - Adam Smith
  • Status report re: Robert
  • Measuring Intellectual Functioning and Adaptive Behavior in Determining ID
  • California lawmakers vote to expand ban on death penalty - Los Angeles Times.
  • WEEK THREE: ADAPTIVE FUNCTIONING - Part 1
  • FEATURED SPEAKER: DR. Daniel Reschly
  • Week Three: Assigned Reading & Videos
  • Definition: The Three Domains of Adaptive Functioning
  • 4 Key Concepts: Adaptive Functioning
  • Selecting Informants for Adaptive Functioning Interviews
  • Case Example: list of informants interviewed in Robert's case
  • The Conceptual Domain
  • Locating School & Special Education Records
  • A Complete Special Education File Includes
  • How to Locate Missing & "Destroyed" Records (5 min)
  • How to Build an Educational History without Records (it can be done!)
  • Birmingham City Schools Letter
  • Reading & Analyzing School Records
  • Case memo: A School Official says the "Broken System" Failed the Client
  • Racial Bias: Against Referring Black Males to Special Ed
  • The Social Domain
  • Gullibility & Naïveté
  • The Practical Domain
  • Interviewing for Adaptive Functioning
  • Co-Occurring Mental Disorders
  • The Crime
  • WEEK THREE: EXERCISES
  • Assignments this Week: Choose One of the Three Options
  • Option #1: Adaptive Functioning Chart
  • Option #2: Educational Snapshot
  • Option 3: Identify areas to investigate in your case regarding schools
  • WEEK THREE: REFERENCE MATERIALS
  • Assessing Mild ID: Issues and Best Practices (Book Chapter by Dr. Reschly)
  • Reference Materials from Dr. Reschly
  • Sample Educational Snapshot
  • Amicus Brief: Moore v. Texas (most recent USSC case regarding ID)
  • Amici Brief from AAIDD and ARC in Moore v. Texas (2017)
  • Systemic Failure in Los Angeles Schools: Chanda Smith Consent Decree
  • Systemic Failure in Chicago Schools (Corey H. lawsuit)
  • Corey H. Lawsuit (Chicago - summary of the case)
  • Webster v. Watson (ID case decided on September 22, 2020)
  • Pre-hearing Brief filed in Webster
  • WEEK FOUR: ADAPTIVE FUNCTiONING - Part 2
  • FEATURED SPEAKER: Jim Patton
  • WEEK FOUR: ASSIGNED READING & VIDEOS
  • WEEK FOUR: EXERCISES
  • Assignment: Storytelling & Vignettes
  • Assignment: Supporting the Client
  • WEEK FOUR: RESOURCES
  • Informal Adaptive Behavior Inventory (by Jim Patton)
  • Mental Retardation: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits (2002)
  • WEEK FIVE: IQ - Measurement of Intellectual Functioning...
  • Featured Expert: Dr. Greg Olley
  • Dr. Olley's Powerpoint
  • WEEK FIVE: ASSIGNED READING & VIDEOS
  • IQ Scores: locating all historical scores
  • Raw Data: What is it, How we get it, and Why do we care?
  • IQ Scores: Key Concepts (SEM, Flynn Effect, Practice Effect)
  • Three Steps to Examine and "Correct" an IQ Score
  • Example: How to Correct an Obtained IQ Score
  • Multiple IQ Scores
  • First, Investigate!
  • Malingering
  • The Wilson Case: A Federal Judge Shows How It's Done
  • US v. Ronell Wilson (detailed discussion of IQ scores & Hall v. Florida)
  • Evaluating ID after the Moore v. Texas Redux (best practices for evaluators)
  • Texas Forensic Puente 04.10.15.pdf
  • Immigrant guidelines.docx
  • WEEK FIVE: EXERCISES
  • Assignment #1: Practice "Correcting" IQ Scores from a sample case
  • Assignment #2: "Correct" the obtained IQ scores in your case
  • Assignment #3: Update your Atkins Investigation Plan - emphasis on IQ Scores
  • WEEK FIVE: REFERENCE MATERIALS
  • Evaluating Intellectual Disability: Clinical Assessment in Atkins Cases
  • Knowledge & Experience Required for Experts in Atkins Cases
  • Behavior in Adult Forensic Cases: Use of Adaptive Behavior Assessment System-II
  • Ethical Implications of Practice Effect: Mental Retardation Claims Capital Cases
  • 2013 Burgaleta IQ changes.pdf
  • Vance 1987 Comparison of WISC-R and WAIS-R.pdf
  • Nagle WISC-R and WAIS in EMR 16yo 1979.pdf
  • Rubin 1985 Comparison of WISC-R WAIS-R in MR.pdf
  • Rubin 1990 Follow up comparison of WISC-R WAIS-R.pdf
  • simon and clopton WAIS and WAIS-R.pdf
  • 2016 Byre Cross-nationality use of assessment instruments.pdf
  • 2017 Drevan Nonverbal and language-reduced measure of cognitive abiliity.pdf
  • WEEK SIX: Storytelling Inside the Case
  • FEATURED SPEAKER: Richard Jasper
  • WEEK SIX: ASSIGNED READING & VIDEOS
  • Story Example: Pre-Natal Risk Factors (3 min)
  • Documenting the Client's Birth (4 min)
  • WEEK SIX: REFERENCE MATERIALS
  • BONUS SESSION: FETAL ALCOHOL
  • Stamping Out Stigma:Establishing the Maternal Alcohol History of Birth Mother
  • Pre-Natal Alcohol Exposure: An assessment strategy for the legal context
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Implications for attorneys and the Courts
  • Ethnic and cultural factors in identifying Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
  • Suggestibility and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
  • Legal & psychological implications of nondisclosure in adoption of child w/ FASD
  • Amicus Brief: National Organization of FAS
  • BONUS SESSION: EVALUATING FOREIGN NATIONALS
  • Featured Speakers: Dhyana Fernandez & Joe Flood
  • Presentation in 2020 (Recorded)
  • Intellectual_disability_across_cultures.pdf
  • Role of Culture in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disability
  • Cultural Competency
  • BONUS SESSION: THE "ATKINS" QUALIFIED MITIGATION SPECIA...
  • Amicus Brief by the American Bar Association (Moore v. Texas)
  • Amicus Brief American Psychological Association (Moore v. Texas)
  • Amicus Brief by APA (Atkins v. Virginia/ McCarver v. North Carolina)
  • Amicus Brief: Penry v. Lynaugh (1989)
  • FINAL COURSE EVALUATION
  • Evaluation: Intellectual Disability - Uncovering, Evaluating & Changing Outcomes
  • Mental Retardation: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits (2002) (clone)
  • How to Become an "Atkins" Qualified Mitigation Specialist (63 min)
Completion rules
  • You must complete the units "Evaluation: Intellectual Disability - Uncovering, Evaluating & Changing Outcomes"
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever
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