Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz^™

Authors: Richard W. Woodcock, Ana F. Muñoz-Sandoval, Kevin S. McGrew, and Nancy Mather
	Type:	Two distinct, co-normed cognitive and achievement batteries
	Purpose:	Provides a comprehensive system for measuring general intellectual ability (including bilingual and low verbal), specific cognitive abilities, scholastic aptitude, oral language, and academic achievement.
	Ages:	2 to 90+ years
	Times:	Varies, about 5–10 minutes per test; Cognitive Standard 7 tests (35–45 minutes); Achievement Standard 11 tests (55–65 minutes); Diagnostic Supplement supplies an additional 11 cognitive tests (55–65 minutes)
	Scoring:	WJ III® Compuscore® and Profiles Program allows you to score and report quickly and easily

Bateria III Private Training

Marsha Escalante, La Habra, CA
E-mail: mescalante@wacsep.com

Background:

Marsha Escalante received her Educational Specialist and Masters Degree in School Psychology from Chapman University. She is a bilingual school psychologist with the Whittier Area Cooperative Special Education Program, where she has worked extensively with bilingual students from the ages of 2 to 22 years. Ms. Escalante's experience includes early childhood diagnostic work as part of a multidisciplinary team, assessment and behavioral support services to special day classes for students with severe disabilities and severe disorders of language, and assessment and counseling services to young adults with disabilities who are served in a Transition Program format.

Ms. Escalante is a frequent presenter on the topics of preschool assessment, evaluating bilingual students, and working with children who have severe disabilities. Ms. Escalante has been an invited presenter at Chapman University and Loyola Marymount University on the topic of early childhood assessment. She has been a leader in the educational community in the use of translators in assessment and IEP's, needs of monolingual Spanish speaking families, and parent training for Spanish speaking families of children with autistic spectrum disorders. Ms. Escalante has been called upon to conduct Psychoeducational Evaluations for students with complex disabilities who are either bilingual or monolingual, in several of the WACSEP member districts when the assessment was of a sensitive or highly complicated nature.