In this video module Cate continues to look at the child’s receptive language skills using excerpts of auditory comprehension subtests from the PLS-5 English and Spanish editions. She uses her clinical judgement to determine whether these skills are typical or not and also shows us some great tips for evaluating young children. Read More
Category: Bias
Bias occurs when an individual interprets or judges others based on their own background and experience. This results in viewing other’s practices, expectations, and perceptions as inferior or wrong. Bias can be cultural, linguistic, or based on socioeconomic status. In speech and language pathology, we look for bias in assessment materials including standardized tests, in curriculum, and in our own perceptions of the individuals with whom we work.
SLAM Dog Comes Home (School-age Language Assessment Measure)
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. Read More
Relevant Research: Nonword Repetition and Child Language Impairment
Source URL: View this document on the ASHA website
This article was one of the first to investigate nonword repetition as dynamic assessment. It also highlighted its importance as a less biased measure of language impairment for individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Understanding Assessment: Nonword Repetition Assessment Task
This document contains the nonword tasks first developed by Dollaghan & Campbell (1998) as part of assessment that is less biased towards diverse populations. Read More
Test Review: CELF-5
The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-5) was designed to assess a student’s language and communication skills in a variety of contexts, determine the presence of a language disorder, describe the nature of the language disorder, and plan for intervention or treatment.
Relevant Research: Discriminating Disorder from Difference Using Dynamic Assessment with Bilingual Children
Downloadable PDF: Research Summary- Discriminating Disorder from Difference Using Dynamic Assessment in Bilingual Children.pdf
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. Read More
Test Review: CELF-4 Spanish
TestReview_CELF 4 Spanish_1.8.14.pdf
The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Spanish, Fourth Edition [CELF-4, Spanish] is a standardized test designed to assess the presence of a language disorder or delay in Spanish speaking children aged 5-21.
Test Review: CELF-P2 (Spanish)
The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals- Preschool, Second Edition [CELF-P2] Spanish is designed to assess the presence of a language disorder or delay in Spanish speaking students aged 3;0-6;11.
