Assessment in speech-language-pathology - shipley and mcafee

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Electronic format allows user to customize assessment materials. Author : Mahabalagiri N. Author : John R. Originally published in , Assessment in Speech and Language Therapy was designed to guide speech therapists in choosing the most appropriate assessments for evaluation, monitoring and intervention at the time.

A child's articulation skills will be judged based on number of errors, error types, forms of errors, consistency of errors, intelligibility, rate of speech, and prosody. As part of the evaluation, one must examine basic motor processes respiration, phonation, resonance, prosody, in addition to articulation that are involved in the production of speech.

Evaluation of a child's language ability both receptive and expressive is crucial to the assessment process.

When assessing a child's language skills, the evaluation should focus on the following areas: pragmatics use of language in context to express intent , syntax patterns of word combinations , morphology set of inflections that allows altered words , semantics a child's vocabulary development , and phonology sound system. Receptive language measures include identifying the child's ability to comprehend and follow directions.

Another area of the assessment is evaluation of child's fluency skills. Evaluation measures will examine and identify any disfluencies in the child's speech. Voice is another assessment area that is a component of a speech-language pathology assessment. The evaluation measures will identify if there is a persistent abnormality in the sound of voice.

In addition, a swallowing evaluation may be conducted to investigate the child's swallowing abilities. A hearing screening will usually be conducted as part of the assessment. The screening is used to identify if the child needs further evaluation which must be conducted by an audiologist. The speech-language pathologist will use developmental norms and standardized measures to make a communication impairment diagnosis.

Preparatory Considerations Chapter 1. Gathering and Reporting Assessment Information Chapter 3. Resources for Assessing Communicative Disorders Chapter 5. Reading Passages Chapter 6.