Schools

Project SKIP Benefits for Schools

Educators understand that, left unidentified and untreated, social-emotional, cognitive, and developmental issues in children can interfere not only with school performance, but also with a child’s ability to build a successful life as an adult. This failure to diagnose also creates substantial costs for school systems.

Using simple and inexpensive screening instruments, including a new cognitive assessment instrument, Project SKIP responds to the need for a scientifically-based, universal screening tool that schools can administer economically and efficiently, while preserving local autonomy.

Available through this website, SKIP I screens children for social-emotional, cognitive, and developmental issues through the use of on-line assessment instruments that parents and teachers complete on behalf of children from Pre-K (2 years of age) through Grade 12 (regardless of age).

The Project SKIP team is also developing SKIP II, a new, more in-depth cognitive assessment instrument for use in the classroom by teachers or at home by parents. Schools are encouraged to contact for more information.

Key School Benefits through Project SKIP:

  • Helps to meet RTI mandates and NCLB standards
  • Screens for cognitive and behavioral, as well as academic issues
  • Allows intervention and services to be designed to fit each child’s needs more precisely
  • SKIP I utilizes easy-to-use, on-line questionnaires accompanied by comprehensive instructions tested in classrooms
  • SKIP II screens for WHY a child is failing and supports Tier 2 assessments through additional cognitive screening

Project SKIP helps to meet Response to Intervention mandates and No Child Left Behind standards.