Principles of evaluation and assessment Flashcards
terminology in assessment
appraisal, diagnosis, evaluation, assessment
Appraisal
synthesizing and describing the client condition- so appraisal of their language skills
Diagnosis
IMPORTANT! That’s just the label that describes their condition (expressive lang disorder, receptive ld)
Evaluation
the actual event; initial processing of establishing eligitivility-give specific tests and its very different than the assessent
Determines eligibility says kid does have disorder
Assessment
more detailed; global much more about the whole child and who child’s communicative functioning
-includes what they need in terms of services, refer child to ot/pt, what they need for education
Who is involved?
slp, audiologist, ent(chronic ear infections, repaired cleft palate), geneticist, neurologist (stroke, seiqure), nuritionist, ot, pt, parents, pediatrician, psychiatrist (kids w/ selective mustism, trauma, social interaction), psychologist (for cognitive), mainstream teacher, special educator
Referral and supporting documentation
Happens before formal evaluation
- case history: pay attention to families concerns
- perform a low structure observation
Case history
take quick look at prenatal, post natal- looking for surgery, time in NICU, birth complications, anything that caused an oxygen prob. low birth weight, prematurity. also looks at child’s communicative developments along w/ motor developments. families history/kids first words
Low structure observation
see how child interacts before structure- see how parent/child interacts-in school you might want to see how they interact
-can observe before consent
4 steps in: Purposes of Assessment
- Screening
- establishing baseline
- establishing goals
- measuring change
Screening
Looking for kids at risk for DLD-it becomes harder to identify the language disorder from the teacher’s perspective because they see things as behavior/literacy/motivation issues- the older the kid gets they could have a lang disorder because they don’t understand what is going on
Baseline
need to know exactly where you are
Goals
assessment is what gives you goals! gives us strengths, weaknesses
- goals means going beyond standardized test to look at criterion referenced test- to look at what that kid will be doing, get linguistic profile where semantics is up high and syntax down low and we drill syntax!
- part of goals is talking to parents and teachers and finding priorities- know what teacher thinks is biggest problem in classroom/not necessarily what is low on the test
Measuring change
ongoing assessment
- regive criterion referenced over and over to tell what goals have been achieved
- can dismiss for 3 reasons
3 reasons you can dismiss
- child making progress but progress can’t be attributed to intervention
- child just got better and is great
In general we need to assess what 3 items in what 2 modalities?
- FORM
- CONTENT
- USE
in 2 diff. modalities = RECEPTIVE AND EXPRESSIVE
Other areas we need to assess
- hearing
- oral motor
- cognition
- social skills
Assessment of comprehension
- contextualized vs. decontextualized
2. assessment of comprehension is inferential