1. An assessment aims to identifying the child’s strengths and weaknesses, develop a language profile of the child, determine concerns, and helps determine next steps. Through assessments the clinician can gather specific language details such as Amelia’s receptive and expressive language, word/sound productions, word combinations, and play skills. Amelia’s assessment (a) will include a standardized test (direct interaction with the child), a language sample, parent questionnaires (direct interaction with parents), and observations at home or during daily routines (observation of child with caregivers and within natural activities) (Crais, 2011). Informal aspects of the assessment will occur during observations of Amelia in the home during
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It is normal for children to be shy around new people or in unfamiliar places therefore, relying on standardized tests alone will not provide the clinician with a good portrait. Three ways to ensure authenticity are to perform the assessment in a natural and familiar setting, include familiar caregivers/communication partners and gather information on what the child can actually do. The assessment will take place in the home of the family as well as Amelia’s school to provide a comfortable, familiar environment and her parents/caregivers will be partners in the assessment plan. In doing so, the clinician is increasing the authenticity as well as collecting data on what Amelia actually can do because the most naturalistic environment is going to elicit unscripted language. Engaging parents or caregivers is very important in the assessment and intervention plans, parental engagement has been shown to increase reliability and validity of the data collected during assessments (Moore, Hyde-Smith, Pratt, & McKnight, …show more content…
Hybrid teaching allows the child to guide the direction of the session but the clinician has control over the manipulatives in order to elicit specific language. Milieu teaching method involves the clinician to manipulate the natural environment to elicit language (keep things out of reach so that the child has to request it). A play based therapy session is encourage since Amelia is very interested in play, specifically kitchen and dress up, and therapy based in a natural setting is more likely to generalize to other context. Both of the recommended goals could be targeting during play, the clinician could narrate the child’s play and prompt the child to repeat words such as, “fork”, “plate”, “cup” and expand on her actions, “bear eat”, “clean table”, etc. During this activity the clinician can model for the parents, allowing them a couple turns while receiving feedback from the clinician. It would also be helpful to give parents examples of how they can do the same things within everyday
It is normal for children to be shy around new people or in unfamiliar places therefore, relying on standardized tests alone will not provide the clinician with a good portrait. Three ways to ensure authenticity are to perform the assessment in a natural and familiar setting, include familiar caregivers/communication partners and gather information on what the child can actually do. The assessment will take place in the home of the family as well as Amelia’s school to provide a comfortable, familiar environment and her parents/caregivers will be partners in the assessment plan. In doing so, the clinician is increasing the authenticity as well as collecting data on what Amelia actually can do because the most naturalistic environment is going to elicit unscripted language. Engaging parents or caregivers is very important in the assessment and intervention plans, parental engagement has been shown to increase reliability and validity of the data collected during assessments (Moore, Hyde-Smith, Pratt, & McKnight, …show more content…
Hybrid teaching allows the child to guide the direction of the session but the clinician has control over the manipulatives in order to elicit specific language. Milieu teaching method involves the clinician to manipulate the natural environment to elicit language (keep things out of reach so that the child has to request it). A play based therapy session is encourage since Amelia is very interested in play, specifically kitchen and dress up, and therapy based in a natural setting is more likely to generalize to other context. Both of the recommended goals could be targeting during play, the clinician could narrate the child’s play and prompt the child to repeat words such as, “fork”, “plate”, “cup” and expand on her actions, “bear eat”, “clean table”, etc. During this activity the clinician can model for the parents, allowing them a couple turns while receiving feedback from the clinician. It would also be helpful to give parents examples of how they can do the same things within everyday