What’s Coming From PAR

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At PAR, we are always working on updating, enhancing, and creating new assessment offerings to help you better serve the needs of your clients. We are currently working hard on several new releases and wanted to take this opportunity to give you a sneak peek into what is coming soon.

Digital Record Form with the RIAS-2

Coming in 2025, PAR is launching an innovative way to administer a performance-based test called the Digital Record Form. The DRF modernizes administration by streamlining the management of administration rules. Spend more time focusing on your client rather than on rules and start points. Easily access the DRF in PARiConnect and capture item responses on one tablet, no subscription required. PAR is launching the DRF with the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales, Second Edition.

NEO Inventories Normative Update

The NEO Inventories Normative Update has officially launched, providing a new normative sample that is more representative of the current U.S. population and enhanced features to help you better serve your clients. The recent update includes fewer print components, creating a more streamlined purchasing process as well as an updated professional manual that includes a blank profile form allowing clinicians to plot T scores from multiple raters and scoring and report generation exclusively through PARiConnect, with the choice of print or digital administration.

Three versions of the NEO are included in the normative update:

Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Adult, 2^nd Ed. (BRIEF2A)

PAR has launched the BRIEF2A! In response to customer demand for updated normative data as well as a way to incorporate the vast research done on executive functioning in adults since the test was first published in 2015, this update to this gold-standard product will be useful for assessing adults with executive functioning difficulties, ADHD, ASD, traumatic brain injury, as well as many other clinical populations.

The new edition offers a large standardization sample matched by age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and geographic region to recent nationwide population figures. Now developed with the 3-factor model - Behavior Regulation, Emotional Regulation, and Cognitive Regulation - the new edition also includes new progress monitoring and multi-rater reports that allow for multiple raters, providing more valuable information to clinicians and leading to more accurate interventions.

Feifer Assessment of Childhood Trauma (FACT)

PAR launched the FACT which helps users determine the full educational impact of stress and trauma. Consisting of three separate forms: teacher, parent, and self, the FACT provides a way to measure, from a neuropsychological perspective, how stress and trauma affect students in a school-based setting.

“Customers are going to appreciate the insight this gives them when used in psychoeducational evaluations,” said PAR’s Director of Content & Production, Carrie Champ Morera, PsyD, NCSP, LP. “In addition to measuring the physiological, emotional, academic, and behavioral impact of trauma, the FACT includes a resiliency cluster that can be used to measure a student's adaptation and coping skills."

The FACT provides insight into the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional impact of trauma in the school environment and assists clinicians in the diagnostic process as well as in creating and designing appropriate interventions.

Emotional Disturbance Decision Tree (EDDT)

PAR introduced a more streamlined way to use the EDDT products—both online and on paper. This update to the EDDT combined all three versions (Teacher, Parent, and Self-Report) into one manual, further simplifying the assessment of emotional disturbance (ED). Additionally, updates to the PARiConnect administration experience now allows users to decide at the time of administration which form they wish to use, enhancing flexibility.

The EDDT is the first instrument of its kind to provide a standardized approach to the assessment of ED that maps on to all the federal IDEA criteria and addresses the broad emotional and behavioral nuances of children who may require special education services for ED.

“This update helps users by combining all the EDDT information into one manual so you don’t need to go to three different manuals in three separate places,” said Champ Morera. “And the 13 case studies in the manual use variations of the forms, so you have a wealth of examples of ways to adapt your use and raters’ perspectives.”

There is so much more to come! Check back frequently to learn the latest on what we are working on here at PAR.

digital record form BRIEF2A