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: Cultural Bias
Cultural bias is present when standardized tests are comprised of tasks that are more common in a culture, particularly mainstream American culture. A test that includes labeling of objects is said to be culturally biased since labeling is not a salient language socialization pattern in some cultures such as low-income Puerto Rican and African American cultures.
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
Appropriate Assessment Procedures- Part 2 (Preschool Disability Evaluations: Module 13)
This module examines different sources of bias that are present in commonly used standardized language tests. Read More
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 exposure to “triangle” and “author” including similar family, cultural, and educational experiences. It follows then, that if a child cannot identify “triangle” or “author” it is because that child has some kind of learning problem. But what if a child does not have a disability but simply did not have the same exposure to “triangle” or books as the majority of children his age? Dynamic assessment offers evaluators an approach to see whether a child can acquire new linguistic information from the environment. Here are some clinicians examples of how to translate the dynamic assessment research into their own disability evaluations, including some “dynamic” approaches to increase the accuracy of our preschool disability evaluations.
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.
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.
Test Resource Guide: Volume II- Preschool Assessment and Kindergarten Supplement
Test Resource Guide Vol II.pdf
This resource, originally published in 1994, consists of reviews of tests and other measures that may be used to obtain information about the preschool child who is suspected of having an educational disability. This volume is one in a series of guides for assessment in the New York City Public Schools. Read More
