General considerations

Question 1

General considerations for assessments and interventions for children from CLD families

Answer 1

1) need to use flexible assessment strategies
2) Need to be familiar with the current best practices literature (ethical and moral responsibility)
3) need to be sensitive to client’s needs, learning style, and family concerns. (can’t always predict)
4) need to be committed to be both a clinician and an advocate (listen and observe 1st)

Question 2

Limiting Bias in Assessments

Answer 2

1) identify families sociocultural information
2) identify child characteristics
3) Identify test characteristics
4) select appropriate test (norm, population)
5) administer tests (do as few standardized as possible, give the whole test)
6) interpret child’s performance with language, dialect, and cultural difference in mind (many tests are culturally bias. new AA test out.)
7) Prioritize decisions and recommendations (dynamic assessment- assessing how they learn)

Question 3

Cultural Variations

Answer 3

Family Structure

• family composition
• primary caregivers

Family Perceptions and Attitudes

• …of child’s disability (shaming?)
• …of health and healing
• …seeking help (build trust)
• …family/community perception of the mainstream (don’t enter world or neighborhood)

Language and Communication Styles

Question 4

Establishing Language Proficiency

Answer 4

Observation
- class, park, lunch,

Structured Questionnaires

Interview Data
- talk to significant caregiver, teachers

Question 5

Adapting Standardized tests

Answer 5

score two ways: standard (follow directions to the tea) or adapted (reward and help out)

allow the child to change their mind, repeat or reword directions, provide additional response time, go beyond the ceiling (miss 6-8 stop testing but go beyond because might not know below or know above) , add practice items (back up and add more) , note nonverbal communication (did gesture because couldn’t come up with it)

Question 6

Other types of assessments for children with CLD families

Answer 6

1) develop local norms for tests
2) Collect language sample and narratives (with CLD in mind) - story retell, play with peers, interaction with parent
3) Dynamic Assessment - looking at how they learn
4) Portfolio Assessment - child’s classwork, art, tests
5) Other criterion referenced Tests - (make goals from, informal measures, don’t get standardized score but just enough)
6) Minimal competency score (phonology)