GVSU SLP 407 Singer Final Exam
Tips for Parents with Language Concerns
- talk, repeat, play with child
- listen/respond to what child says
- talk with child in language you are most comfortable with
- teach child another language if you speak one
- talk about what you do/what child does during the day
- use lots of different words
- use longer sentences as child ages
- have child play with other children
Standardized Language Assessments: Clinical Evaluation of Language
Fundamentals (CELF)
- norm-referenced test of global language skills
- tests semantics, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics
- ages 5-21 years
Standardized Language Assessments: CELF Preschool
global battery for ages 3-6:11 and involves very childlike pictures
Standardized Language Assessments: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT)
- tests receptive semantics
- child identifies pictures to an examiner
- test is finished once the ceiling set has been reached
,Standardized Language Assessments: Expressive Vocabulary Test(EVT)
- tests expressive language and semantics
- norm-referenced test of expressive vocabulary/word retrieval
- used with all ages
- start item based on examinee's age
Norm-Referenced Results
- average: 85-115
- scaled scores average: 7-13
Basal Rule (Reversal Rule)
5 consecutive correct rules
Ceiling Rule
5 consecutive incorrect rules
Static Assessment
- passive participants
- examiner observes
- identify deficits
- standardized
- follows standardized procedures
, Dynamic Assessment
- active participants
- examiner participates
- describe modifiability
- fluid, responsive
- deviate from standardized procedures
Ways to Adapt/Modify a Test
- ask a child why they chose answer
- provide feedback
- modifies prompt (use similar hierarchy across items)
- standardized prompts
When is dynamic assessment useful?
- distinguish between language difference and language disorder,
especially for children response to mediated learning experience
- "trial therapy"
Dynamic Assessment: Basic Framework
- pretest: assess child's current performance
- teach: use mediated learning experience (MLE); help child develop
strategies; observe child's modifiability
- post-test: compare performance to pretest; assess transfer of strategies
Mediated Learning Experience (MLE)
discussion between an adult and a child in which the adult helps the child
make sense of an event they are mutually experiencing
Tips for Parents with Language Concerns
- talk, repeat, play with child
- listen/respond to what child says
- talk with child in language you are most comfortable with
- teach child another language if you speak one
- talk about what you do/what child does during the day
- use lots of different words
- use longer sentences as child ages
- have child play with other children
Standardized Language Assessments: Clinical Evaluation of Language
Fundamentals (CELF)
- norm-referenced test of global language skills
- tests semantics, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics
- ages 5-21 years
Standardized Language Assessments: CELF Preschool
global battery for ages 3-6:11 and involves very childlike pictures
Standardized Language Assessments: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT)
- tests receptive semantics
- child identifies pictures to an examiner
- test is finished once the ceiling set has been reached
,Standardized Language Assessments: Expressive Vocabulary Test(EVT)
- tests expressive language and semantics
- norm-referenced test of expressive vocabulary/word retrieval
- used with all ages
- start item based on examinee's age
Norm-Referenced Results
- average: 85-115
- scaled scores average: 7-13
Basal Rule (Reversal Rule)
5 consecutive correct rules
Ceiling Rule
5 consecutive incorrect rules
Static Assessment
- passive participants
- examiner observes
- identify deficits
- standardized
- follows standardized procedures
, Dynamic Assessment
- active participants
- examiner participates
- describe modifiability
- fluid, responsive
- deviate from standardized procedures
Ways to Adapt/Modify a Test
- ask a child why they chose answer
- provide feedback
- modifies prompt (use similar hierarchy across items)
- standardized prompts
When is dynamic assessment useful?
- distinguish between language difference and language disorder,
especially for children response to mediated learning experience
- "trial therapy"
Dynamic Assessment: Basic Framework
- pretest: assess child's current performance
- teach: use mediated learning experience (MLE); help child develop
strategies; observe child's modifiability
- post-test: compare performance to pretest; assess transfer of strategies
Mediated Learning Experience (MLE)
discussion between an adult and a child in which the adult helps the child
make sense of an event they are mutually experiencing
