Rossetti: Appropriate Intervention Skills

The Rossetti can be administered by anyone in the assessment and intervention team; it does not have to be administered by a speech-language pathologist. The only qualification is that the evaluator has a thorough knowledge of child development and communication skills. The instrument can be administered in the home, at school, in the clinic, in a hospital setting etc., as long as the child is comfortable in the setting and there are few distractions. The caregiver should also be present during the assessment to make the child more at ease, and to comment or report on the child’s behaviors.
The child’s performance in each area provides important information about the child’s patterns of strengths and weaknesses in communication and language development. This information helps to determine whether there is a need for intervention and has implications for the development of appropriate intervention goals.
The interaction-attachment section assesses whether there is a reciprocal relationship and communication between the …show more content…
One reason is because parent reports may be convenient for the evaluator, but they may not always be effective. Parents are biased and therefore cannot always provide accurate information. They have also not been trained to notice the discriminating aspects of language structure and use, as a speech-language pathologist has. They may also tend to overestimate their child’s abilities due to their parental pride. The authors addressed this concern however and discussed studies that have been done to prove the accuracy, concurrent validity, and reliability of parent reports. The studies found that there were significant correlations between the parent reports and the child’s performance, so the authors felt they could comfortably rely on parent reports for this instrument (Fenson, et al.,