From Face-to-Face to Virtual Instruction: Developing Competencies to Administer a Standardized Assessment During COVID-19

The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated that face-to-face (F2F) teaching and learning strategies be adapted to the virtual environment. This article describes a 7step method successfully used to rapidly adapt an established and valid 4- to 6-week F2F training program into a 10-week virtual format for prospective SIS-A assessors to develop assessment competencies. Strategies used to validate the adapted curriculum, instructional materials, instructional strategies, and guidance materials are discussed, as are the perspectives of the inaugural virtual training cohort. The evidence for and implications of greater adoption of technology in social work teaching, learning, and practice are considered.

COVID-19 and the Field of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Where Have We Been? Where Are We? Where Do We Go?

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected, and will continue to affect, every aspect of the intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) community. We provide recommendations to (a) support people with IDD and the broader of field of IDD during the course of the pandemic, and (b) place the IDD community in a strong position when the health threats associated with the pandemic abate and post-pandemic social and policy structures are formed.