Woodcock Munoz Foundation Materials Grant (January 2012)

Jennifer Mascolo, PsyD, NCSP, from Columbia University, Teacher's College, is a full-time lecturer in the graduate School Psychology program and a licensed psychologist in New York and New Jersey and Nationally Certified School Psychologist. Her research interests include intelligence, the relationship between academic and cognitive functioning, and assessing and intervening with specific learning disabilities. Dr. Mascolo has coauthored three textbooks, including the first and second editions of the Essentials of the WJ III Tests of Cognitive Abilities"as well as several book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles.

BOOKS

 

Flanagan, D. P., Ortiz, S. O., Alfonso, V. C., & Mascolo, J. (2006).  The achievement test

desk reference (ATDR): A guide to learning disability identification, second edition.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

 

Schrank, F., Woodcock, R., Flanagan, D. P., & Mascolo, J. T. (2002).  Essentials of WJ III cognitive assessment.  New York:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

Flanagan, D. P., Ortiz, S. O., Alfonso, V. C., & Mascolo, J. (2000).  The achievement test

desk reference (ATDR): Comprehensive assessment and learning disabilities.  Allyn & Bacon.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Flanagan, D. P., Alfonso, V. C., and Mascolo, J.T. (2011).  A CHC-based Operational Definition of SLD: Integrating Multiple Data Sources and Multiple Data Gathering Methods.  In D.P. Flanagan and V.C. Alfonso (Eds.) Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

Flanagan, D. P., Alfonso, V. C., Mascolo, J. T., & Hale, J. B. (2011).  The Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children, Fourth Edition, in Neuropsychological Practice. In A. Davis (Ed.) Handbook of Pediatric Neuropsychology.

 

Mascolo, J. T. (2009).  Linking WISC-IV assessment results to educational strategies and instructional supports.  In D. P. Flanagan and A. S. Kaufman (Eds.) Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

Flanagan, D. P., & Mascolo, J. T. (2005).  A conceptual framework for LD determination.  In D. P. Flanagan and P. L. Harrison (Eds.) Contemporary intellectual assessment: Theories, tests, and issues (2^nd Edition).  New York: Guilford.

 

Mascolo, J. T. (2004).  Use of the WISC-IV and WIAT-II within the context of a modern operational definition of learning disability.  In D. P. Flanagan and A. S. Kaufman (Eds.) Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

Mascolo, J. T. (2004).  Illustrative Case Reports (The Case of Ryan).  In D. P. Flanagan and A. S. Kaufman (Eds.), Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

Flanagan, D. P., Mascolo, J. & Genshaft, J. L. (2000).  A conceptual framework for interpreting intelligence tests for preschoolers.  In Bruce A. Bracken (Ed.), The psychoeducational assessment of preschool children (3rd ed.).  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

 

DiGiuseppe, R. & Mascolo, J. (1999).  Thinking your way clean: Rational-emotive behavior therapy with a poly-substance abuser.  In E. Thomas Dowd and Loreen Rugle (Eds.), Comparative treatments of substance abuse.  New York: Springer Publishing Company. 

 

Mascolo, J. (1999). A WISC-III based Gf-Gc cross-battery interpretive report.  In Flanagan, D. P., McGrew, K. S., & Ortiz, S. O., The Wechsler Intelligence Scales and Gf-Gc Theory: A Contemporary Approach to Interpretation.  Boston:  Allyn & Bacon. 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL NEWSLETTER ARTICLES

 

Mascolo, J. (1998).  Acknowledging, understanding, and assessing the impact of children's exposure to community violence.  The School Psychologist, 52, (2), 1-72.

 

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

 

Hale, J., Alfonso, V., Berninger, V., Bracken, B., Christo, C., Clark, E., Cohen, M., Davis, A., Decker, S., Denckla, M.,  Dumont, R., Elliott, C. Feifer, S., Fiorello, C., Flanagan, D., Fletcher-Janzen, E.,  Geary, D., Gerber, M., Gerner, M., Goldstein, S., Gregg, N., Hagin, R., Jaffe, L., Kaufman, A., Kaufman, N., Keith, T., Kline, F., Kochhar-Bryant, C., Lerner, J., Marshall, G., Mascolo, J., Mather, N., Mazzocco,  M., McCloskey, G., McGrew, K., Miller, D., Miller, J., Mostert, M., Naglieri, J., Ortiz, S., Phelps, L., Podhajski, B., Reddy, L., Reynolds, C., Riccio, C., Schrank, F., Schultz, E., Semrud-Clikeman, M., Shaywitz, S., Simon, J.,  Silver, L.,  Swanson, L., Urso, A., Wasserman, T., Willis, J., Wodrich, D., Wright, P., & Yalof, J. (in press).   Critical Issues in Response-To-Intervention, Comprehensive Evaluation, and Specific Learning Disabilities Identification and Intervention: An Expert White Paper Consensus.  Learning Disabilities Quarterly. 

 

 

Flanagan, D. P., Kaufman, A. S., & Mascolo, J. T. (2005).  A review of the WISC-IV.  Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.

 

 

DISSERTATION

 

Mascolo, J. (2001).  Interpreting cross-battery data from contemporary theory:  Cross-validation of the CHC model in a referred sample.  Unpublished doctoral dissertation, St. John's University.

 

 

MULTI-MEDIA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

 

Mascolo, J. T. (2008).  Video Interview on Specific Learning Disabilities and Response to Intervention.  Interview segments appearing in Agora: The Marketplace of Ideas. Best Practices: Applying Response to Intervention (RTI) and Comprehensive Assessment for the Identification of Specific Learning Disabilities developed by D. P.Flanagan, A. S.  Kaufman, N. L. Kaufman, & E. O. Lichtenberger. (2008). [6-hour training program/DVD].

 

Essentials of Planning, Selecting and Tailoring Interventions for the Unique Learner

For Alan S. Kaufman and Nadeen L. Kaufman's "Essentials" Book Series with Wiley

Editors: Jennifer T. Mascolo, Dawn P. Flanagan, and Vincent C. Alfonso