Standard Assessment Procedures
Naming the disorder, finding its cause if possible, and describing characteristics.
What is Diagnosis?
A representative sample of the client’s everyday communication skills.
The range of Standard Scores between 85 and 115 on the Bell Curve distribution.
What is Average?
A test measures what it is meant to measure.
What is Validity?
The possibility of an adult returning to work in the future is an example.
What is Prognosis?
A brief procedure that helps determine the need for further assessment in more detail.
What is screening?
Three examples are Rating scales, Questionnaires, and Developmental inventories.
What are Informal Assessments?
The average performance of a typical group of people based on age levels.
What are Norms?
The test yields similar scores for the same individuals upon repeated testing.
What is Reliability?
A measure of target behaviors in the absence of treatment or before treatment has begun.
What is Baseline Data / Establishing Baselines?
Includes prior assessment and treatment, family communication patterns and home environment, Prenatal, birth and development details, info about illness, trauma and treatment in the past, education, and occupation.
What is the Case History?
An evaluation of a client’s daily communication skills in a naturalistic context that is especially important for clients who cannot express their basic needs.
The actual scores earned on a test.
What are raw scores?
Consistency of measures when the same test is administered to the same person twice.
What is Test-Retest Reliability?
Respect, trust, and a harmonious relationship between the clinician and the family (Pindzola et al., 2016).
What is Rapport?
Set to 20 or 25 dB HL for 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 Hz.
What are settings for an Audiometer / Hearing Screening?
Performance is evaluated against a standard of performance, eg. 80% accuracy is acceptable.
What is Criterion-referenced testing?
The chronological age for which a given raw score is the mean in the standardized sample.
What is Age Equivalency?
A measure of internal consistency of a test, where the first half of the test correlates with the second half of the test.
What is Split-half Reliability?
Audio-record a minimum of 100 utterances, use age-appropriate conversation topics, ask primarily open-ended questions, and allow enough periods of silence to encourage the client to initiate speech.
What are ways to obtain a Speech-Language Sample?
Standard evaluation of the oral and facial structures to identify any structural abnormalities that may affect speech production.
What is an Oral Mech / Orofacial Exam?
Evaluating the child’s ability to learn with a test-teach-retest format.
What is Dynamic Assessment?
A measure of the percentage of subjects who scored at or below a specific raw score.
What is Percentile?
Consistency of measures when two forms of the same test are administered to the same person.
What is Alternate-form Reliability?
A test standardized on middle-class, monolingual, English-speaking, White children in Utah, Arizona, and Illinois would not be valid for use with a bilingual, Spanish-speaking child who immigrated from Cuba at age 5 and currently lives in Louisiana.
What is a limitation of Standardized Tests?