Speech/Language Evaluation
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The purpose of the evaluation is to determine the functional performance of a student relating to the student’s current communication skills in the educational environment.
What is a speech and language evaluation?
A speech and language evaluation is comprehensive and can include variables (depending on the age the client) such as educators, parents and other service providers, multiple measures (i.e., authentic dynamic assessment measures, norm-referenced assessment, criterion-reference measures, developmental profiles) and assessment in customary environments which may include language sampling. The evaluation should not rely one method of assessment like a standardized test.
The evaluation needs to answer the following questions:
- What are the student’s current strengths in communication?
- What are the student’s current weakness in communication?
- Are the student’s difficulties due to disability or learning difference?
- Are the student’s current difficulties due to dialect, cultural differences, second language learning, environmental and/or economic influences, or limited exposure?
- Do these difficulties impact the student’s educational performance or access to educational opportunities?
- What supports and/or prompts impact the student’s performance?
- Where do the communication difficulties occur?