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What is the purpose of an assessment?
- Diagnosis & Conclusions
- referral
- need of treatment
- focus of treatment
- frequency and length of treatment
- structure of treatment
What are 3 sources of pre-assessment information?
- written case history
- interviews with client, parent,spouse, or other caregivers
- information from other practitioners such as teacher
What are steps of an assessment?
- obtain historical information about the client, family/caregivers, and nature of disorder
- interview the client,/fam/caregivers and or both
- oral mech
- sample and escalate the clients speech and language skills in areas of: Arctic, lang, fluency, voice, dysphagia
- hearing screening
- evaluate assessment info to determine a diagnosis and recommendations
- share clinical findings through an interview w client or family
same and evaluate the clients speech and lang skills in the areas of
- articulation
- language
- fluency
- voice
- dysphagia
What are the topic categories for interviewing?
- Prenatal & birth history
- Education/Employment
- medical/dental/hearing
- refferal information
- feeding swallowing and chewing
- sibling/peer/family relationship
- motor development
- speech/lang history
Name at least 3 other professionals we may consult and what beneficial information they can give us
- Teacher: they may be able to explain how the child might interact with their peers, if they are social or not.
- Audiologist: they can let us know whether or not a child may have hearing issues or loss that can affect their cognitive development
- Pediatrician: they can advise whether the child had any medical concerns early in development or in the womb as well as if they are hitting their normal developmental milestones
What is HIPPA?
-it is health insurance portability accountability act
How does HIPPA affect SLP?
-it is illegal to request info about a client that is not reasonable necessary
What can we do to be within HIPPA guidelines?
Obtain client/parent/ guardian/giver givers permission
What is the difference between a language difference and disorder?
- Language Difference
- Will occur in L2 and is Dialectical
- Language Disorder
- Occurs in L1 and L2
What are 5 interview questions to add to the basic case history for multicultural of CLD students?
- How old was your child when they said their first word in their primary language?
- Does child prefer gestures over words when attempting to communicate in the home?
- how do they compare with their siblings?
- can your child communicate effectively with you in the primary lang?(tell story,give directions?
- is there a family history of special education or learning problems?
what are the normal patterns of second language acquisitions?
- interference/transfer
- fossilization
- silent period
- code switching
- language loss
- interlanguage
What is interference?
communicative behaviors from L1 are transferred from L2
what is fossilization?
L2 errors become engrained even after the speaker has achieved a high level of second language proficiency
What is silent period?
period of time when a second language learner is actively listening and learning but speaking little
What is code switching?
-speaker unknowingly alternates between two languages
what is language loss
a decline in a speakers l1 proficiency while a second one is being learned
What is interlanguage
speaker develops a personal linguistic system while attempting to produce the target language
What is BICs
- basic interpersonal communication skills
- social language
- meaningful context
- two years to develop before CALPS
What is CALPs
- cognitive academic language proficiency
- formal language;required for success at school
- cognitively demanding w/ little to no context shared experience
- 5-7 years to develop
What are the 9 facts for creating a good assessment for a CLD
- observe a child in multiple settings
- use a low anxiety testing environment
- interview the fan to learn about interaction, attitudes,cultural differences, & developmental milestones
- conduct a lang sample to examine pragmatics & convo maintenance
- meet w teachers to obtain a complete pic
- test all languages
- use review, interviews, observe and test procedure (RIOT)
- administer the ALDe questionnaire
- disadvantage: intensive and time consuming
What are the indicators of a lang disorder?
- does not express basic needs
- rarely initiate verbal interactions
- replaces speech with gestures and nonverbal
- word finding difficulties
- difficulty taking turns
What are Pros and Cons for Norm Reference tests:
Pros: *Test are objective *skills can be compared to large group of similar individuals *easy to administer Cons: * does not allow for individualization *strict administration rules *testing situation may not be representative of real life
What are pros and cons for Authentic Assessment approach?
Pros: *natural and similar to the real world *offers flexibility *allows for individualization Cons: *approach may lack objectivity *not being preferred by schools and insurance due to not being a known test * requires a lot of time