LDII Comprehensive Assessment

Question 1

School Based Data

Answer 1

The student interacts with others

• Academic Activities
• -Artifact analysis, curriculum-based assessment, observations in school settings, education al records
• Contextualized Tests
• -Norm-referenced measures of academic achievement, curriculum benchmarks, SOLs

-Reflect communication skills in a function context & document educational impact

Question 2

Speech-Language Specific Data

Answer 2

The student interacts with SLP

• Speech-Language probes
• -Case history, interviews, language samples, narrative samples, dynamic assessment, play-based assessment
• Decontextualized Tests
• -norm referenced speech-language tests

-Identify and describe a speech/lang deficit & rule out language difference

Question 3

Interpreting assessment data

Answer 3

• Test performance by language are, modality, scores & relative strengths/weaknesses
• Test taking behaviors
• Ecological evidence

Question 4

A Comprehensive Assessment (6)

Answer 4

1. Describes functional skills in a meaningful context
2. Document skills in ways that support the development of goals
3. Document educational achievement
4. Document educational impact of Sp-Lang impairment
5. Document significant disabilities (norm-referenced test)
6. Determine language difference v. disability