NYCDOE Initial Guidance Document for Speech and Language Evaluators
This document is based upon the requirements of the federal, state, and city law, regulations, and policies.
SLAM Bunny Goes to School Cards – Jamaica
This set of language elicitation cards and questions was designed as a tool to be used in assessing language for preschool and elementary school aged children.
SLAM Bunny Goes to School Cards – Ghana
This set of language elicitation cards and questions was designed as a tool to be used in assessing language for preschool and elementary school aged children.
Motor Speech, Articulation, and Speech Sound Inventory (DDPE Playlist: Module 7)
In this module, Cate continues with the evaluation by performing an assessment of Alex’s speech and articulation through the use of an articulation screener from the PLS-5.
Dynamic Assessment: Nonword Repetition, Syllable and Sentence Repetition (DDPE Playlist: Module 8)
In this module Cate discusses using dynamic assessment using repetition of nonwords, sentences and syllables (Dollaghan & Campbell, 1998) to help confirm Alex’s diagnosis of developmental apraxia.
SLAM Lost Cellphone Cards
This set of language elicitation cards and questions was designed as a tool to be used in assessing language for junior high and high school aged children.
SLAM Dog Comes Home Cards
This set of language elicitation cards and questions was designed as a tool to be used in assessing language for preschool and elementary school aged children.
SLAM Bunny Goes to School Cards
This set of language elicitation cards and questions was designed as a tool to be used in assessing language for preschool and elementary school aged children.
Dynamic Assessment: How Does it Work in the Real World of Preschool Evaluations?
In a disability evaluation, we ask a child to point “to the triangle” or “to the author” as part of test developed to identify disorder. An evaluator who uses this kind of test to identify disability must assume that all children being evaluated have had similar...(Hasson et al., 2013) Discriminating Disorder from Difference Using Dynamic Assessment with Bilingual Children
This study builds on recent evidence of the usefulness of dynamic assessment (DA) along with a mediated learning experience (MLE) and graduated prompting as a more appropriate method of determining the presence of language disorder (LD) in culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children.