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Evaluation (PACE):
Assessing Childrens Speech
and Language
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page
Areas of Discussion
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Overview
link
Areas of Discussion
The
Assessment
Language
Comprehension
Language Expression
Articulation/Phonology
Phonemic Awareness/Preliteracy
Play
Structural-Functional/Oral-Motor Exams
Areas of Discussion
Making
To
Recommendations
What
is normal?
Is the person functional without treatment?
Are they ready for treatment?
What do I recommend?
Reports
Tutorials
Assignments
Assessing Language
Comprehension over the
Childhood Years
Assessing Language
Comprehension
You
tests
Informal
Observation
Assessing Language
Comprehension
You must determine if the data
collected support one another.
If they are discrepant, you must ask
yourself Why? You will need to try
to figure out why and talk about it in
the report.
Formal Assessment of
Comprehension
Formal
Know
assessment measures
Informal Assessment of
Comprehension 0 ~ 4 years
Areas to consider:
Informal Assessment of
Comprehension 3 years and up
Areas
to consider:
Answering
wh-questions
Understanding
concepts
developmentally appropriate
Following
Making
See
Assessing Language
Expression over the
Childhood Years
Language
Form
Form
Content
Content
Use
Use
MLU
syntactic structure
grammatical morphemes
complex sentences
speech sound production*
intonation, prosody, inflection
Content
topics
Use
communicative
intentions
eye contact/physical proximity and body
language
topic initiation, maintenance, conclusion
turn taking skill
Language use is context and partner
dependent and is best done via
informal, careful observation.
Formal measures
Many
Informal Assessment
Play-based
Show-n-share
Conversation
See also
samples
Appendix F for specific Indirect Elicitation Techniques to
elicit various types of expressive language
of persistent language
disorder
Have ecological validity natural part
of daily interaction
Test of language content, form and use;
an interaction between the 3 areas.
Can set up opportunities for dynamic
assessment add supports to see if
they help the child.
Narratives
Discourse
(narrative or expository)
Story retelling
Story generation with a picture
Story generation with a series of
pictures
Fictional
Elicited
Personal
Script
Fictional
Story Generation
Story Retelling
Eliciting Narratives
Narratives
Discourse
Low-structured
Eliciting Narratives
Narratives
Story
Bus
Story
Strong
Story
Expression
Narrative Test
Test
of Narrative Language
Speech Formal
Assessment of
Connected speech sample(for all ages)
Articulation/Phonology
Speech Informal
Assessment of
Use a language sample during
Articulation/Phonology
play/conversation or
CPAC provides story-retelling contexts to
set up opportunities for speech sounds
Compare errors in connected speech
samples to performance on standardized
tests (do they match?)
Determine intelligibility rating from
connected speech
Phonological
Use
Delays/Disorders
Hierarchy
of errors/patterns
Typical vs atypical errors/patterns
Effect of errors on intelligibility
Level of stimulability
Childs (not parents) awareness and distress
Stimulability
Purpose:
Brief
Stimulability
It
Only
Assessing Phonemic
Awareness
Tests
CTOPP
PA screening subtests
Assessing Play
Assessment of Play
Play
As
Observation
Structural-Functional/Oral-Motor
Exams
Making Recommendations: To
Treat or Not to Treat
Is
treatment warranted?
Consider
What is Normal??
z-score range
> +1.65
+1.01 to +1.65
Normal (WNL)
+/- 1.0
Borderline
-1.01 to -1.65
Deficient
< -1.65
Do
If
Functionality
Do
In
Readiness to Learn
Stimulability
or Dynamic Assessment
Is
Cognition
If
Parent training
You
Tutorials
There are a number of tutorials that you should
carefully review:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Preplanning *
Day of Evaluation *
Hearing Screening *
Interviewing *
PACE Reports
Report Writing Hints