The teacher interview is an essential diagnostic tool that can provide information about the child’s academic performance and classroom behavior that is useful in assessing and evaluating a child for a disability.
Model Eval- English.Mandarin.12-11.pdf
WaLi is a 12 year old Mandarin/English sequential bilingual attending middle school in Chinatown, Manhattan. WaLi is an English Language Learner who is in the process of acquiring academic language in English but experiencing language loss in Mandarin as a result of his linguistic environment.
Model Eval- Spanish.English.10-0.pdf
IN is a sequential Spanish/English bilingual 10-year old girl demonstrating typically developing language skills. She attends a prestiguous public school with a heavy hispanic population and is currently in a general education classes receiving no related services or extra supports. Ines is demonstrating language loss in Spanish, however this is expected given her current linguistic environment.
Model Eval-8.5-EnglishSpanish-ModerateLanguageDelay-HearingLoss.pdf
Ricky is an 8 year, 5 month old child who is strongly Spanish-Dominant. He exhibits behavioral issues and poor academic placements. In addition, he was recently diagnosed with hearing loss, but received no amplification.
Martha is a 3-year-old child who is blind and has very significant cognitive, fine motor, and gross motor impairments. Martha was transitioning from Early Intervention to Preschool during this evaluation. Martha is prelinguistic. In an Evaluation of Child with Multiple Handicapping Conditions, it is always important to provide information on a child’s strengths and weaknesses, and to quantify the child’s developmental levels.
ModelEval30-AAESAE-SevereLanguageDelay-ShakenBabySyndrome.pdf
Anthony is a 3-year-old child with multiple-handicaps. He has “Shaken Baby Syndrome” due to abuse. He lives with his grandmother who primarily speaks AAE, but is also exposed to SAE. With all children, but especially children with severe multiple handicaps, it is critical to describe the child’s strengths which can be built upon in developing strategies to improve the child’s functional communication.
Oscar is a 4 year, 2 month old child who is strongly English dominant. His mother is African-American and speaks English. His father is of Puerto Rican decent and is fluent in Spanish and English. Oscar is a bright boy, but with some evidence of concrete thinking similar to that seen with Asperger’s syndrome.
It is important to be as thorough as possible when writing the background section of the evaluation as extenuating circumstances could explain a delay in language development and also help the evaluator differentiate between a delay, disorder, or normal language development, given the circumstances. Read More
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