Assessment School Age With Sli

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Outline for Assessment of School Age Child suspected of having LI

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1. hearing screening
2. voice, articulation, fluency screening
3. case history/interview
4. standardized assessment

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Comprehensive language assessment

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test that assesses any type of language.
Receptive and expressive - can be very long

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Task/skill specific assessment

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ex: Peabody picture vocabulary test
Only tests receptive. look for a specific target.

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Non-standardized assessment

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-observation
-narrative assessment
-portfolio assessment
-dynamic assessment

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Narrative Assessment

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assesses child's ability to generate and retell a story. For older children, more complex, generate expository texts (ability to communicate concepts like compare and contrast , how-to procedures)

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Portfolio Assessment

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collection of all of the child's work, able to see if there was progress (video(anything that would be helpful,) teacher notes, sample of child's work, reports of other professionals notes observations)

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Dynamic Assessment

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any task where you give them assessment and see how they do on their own, then give them instruction on how to fix it, and see if they can follow your instruction to see if there is improvement (see if there is change)

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Assess in context and not in isolation

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obtain information from the typical environment, case history, interviews with parents and teachers, classroom observations

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Standardized tests

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may be used but do not stand alone as an assessment procedure- give child articulation test, and never is able to say /r/ in medial position. look at test and there are only one or two chances for the child to demonstrate /r/. may not actually have problem. may not tell you where to begin with therapy for child.

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For school-age children consider the curricular demands and expectations

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Ohio Content Standards
- have to consider what they need to be able to do in school to be successful. have to understand how language impairment will affect the child in the classroom.

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Example of student with suspected LI

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see handout and study guide

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Challenges with non-biased assessment

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trying to make the assessments not biased against any students. observation that some ethnic groups score lower on nonstandardized assessments.
Important to use informal measures when assessing CLD students. --criterion referenced test and curriculum based assessment

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How long does it typically take CLD students to gain academic language proficiency?

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5-10 years (all the words and vocabulary that you use in school)

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Curriculum based assessment

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basing it on what they have to achieve in school. Collect data on how they write an assignment. Collect weekly data. How long it takes them to complete task, and how many sentences, how complex sentences are. Chart progress. Compare students progress to other CLD students.