ASLS 682 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Percentile, Pragmatics, Face Validity
4 Oct 2016
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Transdisciplinary play based assessment 2 (tpba -2: communication and language. Methods of assessment: standardized tests: uses. To demonstrate a client is significantly different from others. To establish eligibility for services: issues in the use of standardized tests. Need to determine what level of difference is clinically meaningful. Not ideal for detailed description of particular forms and functions. Need to be supplemented with other methods when planning intervention program. Types of test norms and scores reported in standardized tests: raw scores, standard scores, percentile ranks, confidence intervals, age and grade equivalents. Methods of assessment: criterion-referenced procedures: examine particular communication behaviors without comparison to other children; not used to determine eligibility, used when eligibility has already been established to. Identify goals for intervention: may be clinician-created to suit individual client needs, may be informal and naturalistic, may be used to monitor change in response to probes over the course of intervention. Assessment methods: behavioral observation: used to sample a particular behavior"s.
