Assessment
This type of assessment measures a child’s performance against a specific set of criteria or developmental standards.
What is a criterion-referenced measure?
Hearing aids are sufficient intervention for children with severe hearing loss to develop typical speech and language.
What is False?
Name one benefit of using play-based assessment for young children.
What is the ability to observe natural communication behaviors or ...?
This intervention strategy focuses on using ________ for children with limited/minimal to no verbal output.
What is augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)?
Name one disadvantage of using norm-referenced standardized assessments in culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
What is potential cultural or linguistic bias (Language Barriers, assumptions about test-taker's background, lack of representation of CLD populations, potential for misdiagnosis (over-identification or under-identification, dialectal variations, limited contextual assessment, accommodations, test interpretation, etc...)?
This assessment tool uses a parent questionnaire to evaluate early communication and social development in children under age 3.
What is the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ)?
Name one intervention technique for improving joint attention in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
What is using preferred objects to capture the child’s attention or ...?
This type of assessment compares a child’s performance to that of other same aged peers. The test uses the same questions, form and scoring method for all test takers.
What is standardized assessment?
Name one strategy for supporting generalization of newly acquired language skills to untrained environments or contexts.
What is varying the practice contexts (e.g., people, settings, and materials)?
A teacher might place a desirable toy in a setting to encourage a student to request that toy (where requesting a toy is the desired target behavior).
What is Milieu Teaching?
This term refers to the consistency of test results across different administrations or examiners.
What is reliability?
When a teacher uses/provides a resource that can help without providing the targeted response or engages the student to stop a non-preferred behavior. This is an example of ____ .
What is redirection or to redirect (scaffolding)?
Dynamic assessment focuses on these two critical elements during evaluation.
What are learning potential and response to intervention?
Although this approach uses structured, repetitive practice to help children with improve speech sound production it can also be used to improve their language skills.
What is drill play or drill-based practice?
This family-centered intervention model encourages parents to implement language-enhancing strategies at home.
What is Hanen's It Takes Two to Talk Program or (any of Hanen's Programs)?
Name one assessment modification for a child with significant motor impairments.
What is allowing alternative response modes (e.g., eye gaze, AAC devices) or...?
Name one strategy to improve pragmatic skills in children with social communication disorders.
What is role-playing social scenarios or ...?
Explain the concept of basal and ceiling rules in standardized assessments and describe their purpose.
What is starting/entry point and stopping point which encompasses a defining the range of questions/items needed to accurately assess their ability level (adjusting for questions that are considered too easy or too difficult)?
Identify an evidence-based strategies/techniques to support vocabulary development in children with expressive language delays.
What is dialogic reading, interactive read alouds, modeling, use of context clues, expansion or ...( any evidence based strategy)?
Discuss the importance of family-centered practice in early intervention.
Any evidence-based response will be accepted.
Compare and contrast norm-referenced assessments, criterion-referenced measures, and dynamic assessments. Provide an example of when each would be appropriate.
Any acceptable evidence-based answer
Discuss the role of caregiver involvement in early intervention and provide two examples of strategies to promote caregiver engagement.
Any acceptable evidence-based answer
Compare and contrast language sampling analysis and standardized testing as methods for assessing a child’s expressive language abilities.
Any evidence-based response will be accepted.
A client will combine two words together like “baby cry” or “mommy cook”, but does not produce grammatically correct sentences like “The baby is crying” or “Mommy is cooking”. Which technique(s)/strategy(ies) would be most appropriate?
What is/are expansions and extensions?
Identify three unique challenges in assessing language development in bilingual children and describe strategies to address them.
Any acceptable evidence based answer