Tele-Collaboration in Speech and Hearing Sciences: Social Communication

Assessment Guidelines

Standardized Tests
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SSRS
- CBCL
- Vineland
- TOPS-ER
- TLC-E
- CELF-3
- TOLD-I:3
- CASL
- TOPL
- NEPSY

Nonstandardized Tasks

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  decorative cubeStandardized Tests

Standardized tests can tap the array of behavior and abilities that have been described under our social communication model.

Click on the name of any instrument listed below for the following additional information: Cost, description, URL, content, time for administration, age range tested, types of scores provided, and information about reliability and validity.

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Social communication behaviors are most typically assessed via caregiver and teacher report. We have found four instruments particularly useful in this regard. They are as follows:

 

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Language assessment
will need to examine performance in semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. Four instruments have been useful to us in assessing language of school age children. They are as follows:

 

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Processing assessment
examines executive functioning. The NEPSY is a standardized instrument with strong psychometric properties for assessing neuropsychological development in children with congenital or acquired brain dysfunction. In addition to the NEPSY, we offer the reader three formal processing-dependent measures that have been developed by clinical researchers to assess different dimensions of language performance. The test stimuli on these measures vary in difficulty allowing examination of the relation between social performance and processing demands.

 

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