Many people have supported us in the development of this book, for which we are grateful.
Our parents, Bernie and Edith, and Chuck and Mildred, provided their constant love throughout our lives. They taught us years ago that education, respect, tolerance, and nurturing are the central ingredients for a child's success at school and at home.
We would like to thank Marquita Flemming from John Wiley & Sons for her encouragement, as well as her patience and understanding regarding several adjustments to the timeline for this book. We would also like to thank Melinda Noack, Senior Editorial Assistant, for helping with permissions and smoothing out so many glitches.
We wish to thank Justin D. Frahm, Senior Production Editor, for his patience and support in the editing and formatting of this book, and Diane Turso for her keen eye. Julie Porter and Joanne Clapp Fullagar provided additional editorial support.
Several of our colleagues generously shared their prodigious expertise, and assisted with or created recommendations for certain sections: Dr. Criselda Alvarado, Dr. Alex Chambers, Dr. Elaine Cheesman, Rebecca Hartzell, M.A., Dr. Janna Kautz, Dr. Patrick McGuire, Dr. Nicole Ofiesh, Dr. Andrea Ogonosky, Dr. Julie Reichman, Dr. Penny Rosenblum, Dr. Deborah Schneider, Dr. David Winters, and Dr. Aimee Yermish.
Other colleagues graciously provided us with psychoeducational and neuropsychological reports and bore with our adaptations and revisions of them. We are grateful to all of the evaluators for their willingness to share their work. Adaptations of reports provided by the following evaluators are included in Section II: Dr. Milton Dehn, Dr. Ron Dumont, Dr. Michael Gerner, Laura Kerry-Henkel, Ed.S., Dr. Chris Nicholls, Dr. Janice Sammons, Lily Schwartz, M.A., Shirley Yang, M.A., and Dr. Aimee Yermish.
We would like to thank our colleagues for their extensive work on the WJ IV, as well as always being available to respond to our questions: Dr. Fredrick Schrank, Dr. Kevin McGrew, and Barbara Wendling. As well, thanks to Dr. John Willis for his ongoing support and much appreciated humor.
We are indebted to our mentors: Dr. Richard Woodcock for teaching us so much about assessment, and Dr. Samuel Kirk for training us in the importance of clinical judgment and the necessity of linking assessments with appropriate instructional recommendations. Finally, we are grateful to each other. We made it through another edition of this book, still the best of friends.