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. Read More
Category: Dynamic Assessment
Dynamic Assessment is a method of assessment, which uses a “test-teach-retest” model. The emphasis is on the individual’s ability to acquire the skills/knowledge being tested after being exposed to instruction. Dynamic assessment is often contrasted with static assessment, which focuses on the skills/knowledge gained prior to assessment. Dynamic assessment is part of an effort to reduce biases inherent in norm-referenced testing that has resulted in disproportionate numbers of minority and culturally/linguistically diverse children being referred for special education.
Motor Speech, Articulation, and Speech Sound Inventory (DDPE Playlist: Module 7)
In this evaluation 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. Read More
SLAM Lost Cellphone (School-age Language Assessment Measures)
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. Read More
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
SLAM Bunny Goes to School (School-age Language Assessment Measure)
SLAM Bunny Goes to School Cards.pdf
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 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.
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
Relevant Research: Factors That Influence Fast Mapping in Children Exposed to Spanish and English
The current study asked whether bilingual children would show less advantage in fast-mapping high-probability words as a result of interference from the second language (in this case Spanish) when compared to monolingual (English) children.
