SPA 385 Assessment

Behind in their developmental milestones

Can over identify children from minority cultures and is not great for assessing younger children

Some Norm Referenced/Standardized assessments include dialect considerations within their scoring manual

Translators are ALWAYS available and considered extremely reliable when it comes to reporting exact reponses to tests

often assesses sub domains 2 & 4/ is efficient to administer

Functional Communication is impacted (ability to comment, request, and get needs/wants met).

Compares results to same aged peers

Often has an automatic co qualifying medical diagnosis.

Which is not a tendency to have a delay

Dynamic Assessment is

Criterion Referenced Tool is

When reporting on test results, only include impaired/areas of weakness

___ to ___ years to acquire language at the academic level

Battery of tests does NOT include

SLP'S MUST differentiate between errors that are related to 2nd lang influence and errors from to a langng disorder.

Significantly behind now, but with services will likely catch up

This type of assessment can be bought oir even free on Teachers Pay Teachers

What type of assessment is this?

We dont have to worry about the "silent period" when assessing a child who is an ELL

When reporting testing results to caregivers, its important to avoid the use of jargon

More often utilized ages 0-7 years

No matter what you determine, delay or disorder , the therapy approach remains the same.

Errors in only English

helpful when determining a treatment plan and Documents students progress

Protocols are not well defined and is not compared to same aged peers performance

test, teach, retest

When testing a bilingual student, you should always try to have a norm referenced test paired with a dynamic assessment

Cajun /Creole

Quick to administer, used with younger children, useful across all subdomains, naturalistic

Standardized assessment that costs hundreds of dollars

Norm Ref Assessment can Identify if the child does or does not have a language impairment

Each dialect is a symbolic representation of the geographic, historical, social, and cultural background of its speakers

Used 80% of the time to assess expressive and receptive language

Dynamic Assessment can decide if the child has a language difference or a language disorder

A screener can be a part of the basic assessment process

Assessment is a complex process that does NOT result in:

Utilizes standard scores. 85-115 is generally considered average

French woman speaking English

Errors in native language

What type of assessment is this?

Errors across both languages

A child with language impairment often cannot change performance with a brief exposure to the task.

What type of assessment is this?

Active participant, examinder participates, fluid/responsive

Identify Skills/Learning PotentialID Potential Disorder in Culturally Diverse Clients

Administered individually and is stagnant

Which is NOT a common cause of a delay:

If a child is able to learn a skill quickly and efficiently, they likely are not a candidate for therapy

Norm Referenced Tool is

Can identify a disorder but is limited when contributing to intervention plans

Criterion Ref assestments identify specific targets for intervention

A Dialect is a ___ not a Disorder

___ to ___ years to acquire language at the conversational level

Informal Assessment tool that is more affordable in cost ($40-180)

What type of assessment is this?

development is generally atypical/ idiosyncratic/ unique to that child. Slow progress with therapy.