Standard Assessment Procedures
Naming the disorder, finding its cause if possible, and describing characteristics.
Diagnosis
A recording of the client’s everyday communication skills.
A Speech and Language Sample
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.
Validity
The possibility of an adult returning to work in the future is an example.
Prognosis
A brief procedure that helps determine the need for further assessment in more detail.
Screening
Three examples are Rating scales, Questionnaires, and Developmental inventories.
Informal Assessments
The average performance of a typical group of people based on age levels.
Norms
The test yields similar scores for the same individuals upon repeated testing.
Reliability
A measure of target behaviors in the absence of treatment or before treatment has begun.
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.
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.
Functional Assessment
The actual scores earned on a test.
Raw scores
Consistency of measures when the same test is administered to the same person twice.
Test-Retest Reliability
Respect, trust, and a harmonious relationship between the clinician and the family (Pindzola et al., 2016).
Rapport
Set to 20 or 25 dB HL for 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 Hz.
Settings for an Audiometer / Hearing Screening
Performance is evaluated against a standard of performance, eg. 80% accuracy is acceptable.
Criterion-referenced testing
The chronological age for which a given raw score is the mean in the standardized sample.
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.
Split-half Reliability
Use age-appropriate conversation topics, ask primarily open-ended questions, and allow enough periods of silence to encourage the client to initiate speech.
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.
An Oral Mech / Orofacial Exam
Evaluating the child’s ability to learn with a test-teach-retest format.
Dynamic Assessment
A measure of the percentage of subjects who scored at or below a specific raw score.
Percentile
Consistency of measures when two forms of the same test are administered to the same person.
Alternate-form Reliability
Using knowledge of the speaker's dialect to determine whether the differences found in the lang sample are disorders or culturally appropriate. (McGregor et al., 1997)
Contrastive Analysis