11 - Specific Assessment Info

Question 1

How is a Language Learning Disorder defined?

1+3

Answer 1

Moderate to severe deficits in….

• Oral language
• Reading
• Written language

Question 2

What four things characterized a Oral Language Disorder?

Answer 2

Poor word finding (accuracy and speed) and retrieval

Poor basic language: semantics, syntax (processing and production)

Deficits in higher level language processing

Deficits in verbal reasoning

Question 3

What two things are we looking for in word finding?

Answer 3

Accuracy

Speed

Question 4

What two things are we looking for in syntax?

Answer 4

Processing

Production

Question 5

What two things characterize a Reading Disorder?

Answer 5

Decoding deficit

Comprehension deficit

Question 6

What are the three kinds of Decoding disorders?

Answer 6

Dyseidetic

Dysphonetic

Mixed dyslexia

Question 7

What four things characterize a Written Language Disorder?

Answer 7

Spelling Deficits

Punctuation Deficits

Semantics Deficits

Syntax Deficits

Question 8

What assessment can be used to determine IQ?

Can it be administered by us?

Answer 8

WISC-IV

No

Question 9

What four assessment tools can be used to evaluate Oral Language?

Answer 9

CELF-5

PPVT-4

OWLS-2

TWF-2

Question 10

What does the CELF-5 measure?

2

Answer 10

Receptive Language

Expressive Language

Question 11

What is the average range of the CELF-5?

Answer 11

7-13

Question 12

What does PPVT stand for?

Answer 12

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

Question 13

What does the PPVT-4 measure?

Answer 13

Receptive Langaug

Question 14

What is the average range on the PPVT?

Answer 14

85-115

Question 15

What does the OWLS-2 measure?

Answer 15

Executive Processing

Question 16

What is the TWF-2?

Answer 16

Test of Word Finding

Question 17

What does the TWF-2 measure?

Answer 17

Word finding ability

Question 18

What five assessments can be used to evaluate reading?

Answer 18

WRMT-III

TOWRE-2

CTOPP-2

GORT-5/GSRT-5

OWLS-2 Reading

Question 19

What is the WRMT-III?

Answer 19

Woodcock Reading Mastery Test

Question 20

What does the WRMT-III measure?

10

Answer 20

Phonological Awareness

Sound-to-Letter Correspondence

Listening Comprehension

Letter + Word Identification

Naming

Reading Fluency

Sight Word Recognition

Phonological Decoding

Word Comprehension

Passage Comprehension

Question 21

What is the TOWRE-2?

Answer 21

Test of Word Reading Efficiency

Question 22

What does the TOWRE-2 measure?

2

Answer 22

Sight Word Recognition

Phonological Decoding

Question 23

What is the CTOPP-2?

Answer 23

Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing

Question 24

What does the CTOPP-2 measure?

Answer 24

Reading-related phonological processing skills

Question 25

What is the GORT-5?

Answer 25

Gray Oral Reading Test

Question 26

What does the GORT-5 measure? | 2

Answer 26

Oral reading fluency Oral reading comprehension

Question 27

What is the GSRT-5?

Answer 27

Gray Silent Reading Tests

Question 28

What does the GSRT-5 measure?

Answer 28

Silent reading comprehension ability

Question 29

What is the OWLS-2?

Answer 29

Oral and Written Language Scales

Question 30

What does the OWLS-2 Reading measure? | 1+4

Answer 30

Four levels of Reading Comprehension - Lexical/Semantics - Syntax - Pragmatics - Supralinguistics

Question 31

What are three assessments that can be used to evaluate Written Language?

Answer 31

TOWL-4 JLRRT TOWS-5

Question 32

What is the TOWL-4?

Answer 32

Test of Written Language

Question 33

What does the TOWL-4 assess? | 5

Answer 33

Vocabulary Spelling Punctuation Sentence Comprehension Composition

Question 34

What is the JLRRT?

Answer 34

Jordan Left-Right Reversal Test

Question 35

What does the JLRRT assess?

Answer 35

Reversals of symbols, letters, and numbers

Question 36

What is the TWS-5?

Answer 36

Test of Written Spelling

Question 37

What does the TWS-5 assess?

Answer 37

Spelling to dictation