How to Write
Affirming, Understandable, Efficient Reports
Our reports can do more than document our work – they are a tool for empowering our clients!
Homestudy Course
Time: 3 hours
CEs: 3 APA-approved CEs
Cost: $99
Reports are our main vehicle of communication with families about results of testing. Yet, most of us were taught to write like researchers – not in a way that focuses on how to effectively communicate with families.
This workshop changes that.
Join me to learn affirming, effective, impactful and efficient strategies for evolving our reports into tools that truly empower our clients.
Workshop Description
As testing psychologists, we are trained to write thorough, detailed, and legally defensible reports. However, few of us were trained how to write reports that communicate results effectively to clients, families and educators.
Research shows that most psychoeducational and neuropsychological reports are written at a 12th–16th grade reading level, including dense, jargony language and deficit-focused narratives. This makes our reports hard to read and often leave clients feeling confused and disheartened by everything “that’s wrong” with themselves or their child.
This workshop will change that.
In this course, you will learn how to write easy-to-understand, affirming, strengths-focused reports without sacrificing clinical accuracy or legal defensibility.
With a focus on neurodiversity-affirming practice, we will unpack strategies to make your reports more concise, actionable, and accessible—turning them into a tool that not only informs but empowers, helping clients and families move forward with clarity and confidence.
In this workshop, participants will learn:
- Specific language for writing an affirming, strengths-based report
- How to structure reports so they are more readable and easier to act on
- Efficiency strategies for writing quickly and effectively
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Write affirming, strengths-based analyses of testing results
- Describe a diagnosis using both a medical and social model of disability
- List 1-3 changes they will make to their report to improve readability
- Employ efficiency strategies for improving workflow
Cost & Refund Policy
$99
The recording is now available! For any of our workshops, if you would like to cancel your registration, please contact us at Liz@DrLizAngoff.com no later than 1 week in advance of the live workshop for a full refund. Refunds will be granted for recordings only if there is an error on our end and you are not able to view the course.
Presented by Dr. Liz Angoff
Liz Angoff, Ph.D., is a Licensed Educational Psychologist with a Diplomate in School Neuropsychology, providing assessment and consultation services to children and their families in the Bay Area, CA. She is the author of the Brain Building Books, tools for engaging children in understanding their learning and developmental differences as part of the assessment process.
Additional Information
Dr. Angoff is the publisher of the Brain Building Books and receives proceeds for these sales. She also has an affiliate relationship with Basiton and Reverb, any proceeds from which fund the Brain Building Book donation program which has donated nearly 1000 books to under-resourced communities, as well as the creation of the free materials on the Explaining Brains website.
Neither Bastion nor Reverb were involved in the creation of the materials for this workshop, and neither company has influence over how Dr. Liz talks about their services. Dr. Liz uses Bastion in her own practice, so many of the examples demonstrated during the workshop use this platform.
AI was not used in the creation of content for this workshop; however, some sample documents may be created using AI to help psychologists practice the strategies shown in the workshop.
