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Clinician Factors

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Prior to Assessment

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  • Know your attitudes about culture and your personal world view
  • Research culture and language in question
  • Decide if your skills are adequate for the task or if you need additional help
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Four Domains of Assessment

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  • Asess in a wide variety of ways
  • Use a variety of standardized/nonstandardized tests
  • Assess client in all his/her languages/dialects
  • Recognize cultural modes of communication behavior that affect assessment
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Assessment Procedure

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  • Carefully review testing tools for appropriateness and modify if necessary
  • Complete Case History in person
  • Check normative sample of tests chosen for assessment
  • Observe instances of code switching/lang. interfence
  • Report all modifications of testing procedures
  • Report norms only if valid for population and test administration
  • Use a variety of elicitation prodedures to learn as much as possible
  • Report must detail how tests were modified and underlying motivation of changes
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Options for Assessment

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  • Dynamic Assessment
  • Criterion Referenced Assessment
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Working with a Translator

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  • Having a translator/family member assist with assessment or intervention is a great option
  • Any translator must be trained prior to assisting to avoid bias
  • Translating standardized testsis not ok
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Monolingual SLP

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  • Test in English
  • Perform Oral Motor Evals
  • Perform Hearing Screenings
  • Complete nonverbal assessments
  • Conduct family interviews given help from a translator
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Evaluation with Non native English Speaker

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  • Be sure to research the native culture
  • Learn all you can about the native language and dialects
  • Find least biased assessment tools
  • Ask for help if necessary
  • Refer to another SLP if unsure of ability to provide adequate services
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Intervention Tips

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  • Identify and overcome personal biases
  • Realize that EBP is available
  • Keep ongiong data
  • Encourage family involvement
  • Assess continually
  • Use natural and meaningful activities
  • Holistic strategies-generalization of skill
  • Kids-Literacy rich for education carry over I
  • Use a variety of social settings in therapy
  • Include native lang./dialect use in therapy sessions