Assessing social language skills is hard. Beyond hard. You know that a child’s inter-personal skills are off, but how do you put a finger on it? I have one student who is very bright. He will tell you all about how things work, what he is going to do over his weekend, the names of his… Read more
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My Favorite Assessment Tool
This used to be a common scene in my speech room: I finish a group, check my schedule, and see that I need to assess Johnny for upcoming IEP goals (or RTI, or informal assessment). I rush out of the room, down the three hallways to Johnny’s room and take him out of class. We… Read more
Twas the Night Before Report Cards
Update: This post was originally posted 11/2012. The product described has been completely updated. If you already own it, make sure to download the new vision for FREE! Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Twas the night before report cards, and all through the school All the teachers were missing, ‘cept Super Woman (that… Read more
RTI and the SLP
“Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tier approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs. The RTI process begins with high-quality instruction and universal screening of all children in the general education classroom. Struggling learners are provided with interventions at increasing levels of intensity to accelerate their rate of… Read more
5 Reasons to Use Informal Assessments
I have to admit that I inherited pages and pages of probes (aka “drill and kill” lists) when I started at my school 14 years ago. There seemed to be one or more for every language concept imaginable. I tried to use them a few times, but they took over multiple sessions and I… Read more
Language Informal Assessment
An interview with the Super Author/Creator: Reporter: Good evening Miss Super Woman. I have a copy of your brand new “Language Informal Assessment” and I’d love to ask you a few questions. May I? Super Woman: Sure. Ask away. Reporter: I’m wondering why you created this product and how it will help you within your… Read more
The Social Language Informal Assessment
I don’t know about you, but my gut reaction when I have another child to evaluate with a possible eligibility of social language disorder, is “Oh no! There are no good tests for me!” I know that there are standardized tests that look at “idioms” or “pragmatic judgement” within the context of other language tasks…. Read more
Functional Communication Assessment
Updated 10/2014: STOP the presses!!! I just made all of this into an awesome “all in one tool”! Not only does it assess social language skills, but you can type into the assessment as you go and have it write up the report for you! Get more info about it here!! My… Read more
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Ever since I created my Jack and the Beanstalk Dynamic Assessment/RTI Unit, I have wanted to do more. But I’ve been struggling and struggling with the fairytale to choose. At last I decided on a story, but then I didn’t have the time to actually create the unit. The pressure has been on, however, because… Read more
Dynamic Assessment and Response to Intervention
If you think about it, Dynamic Assessments are very similar to Response to Intervention. Both are fluid ways to see if a child makes progress on a skill within a determined period of time. Students that make adequate progress are most likely have typical language learning abilities. Students that make very little progress, regardless of… Read more
Are my eyes just getting worse
Or are these “Prove you’re not a robot” things getting harder and harder to decipher?! I removed them from my commenting section for a while (because I hate them so much), but then I got slammed with spam so I had to put them back. 🙁 Hope YOU can decipher these free Articulation Word Search… Read more
All Aboard the Polar Express!
Note: Completely new and expanded product! Long, long ago (read: 2000) in a land far, far away (read: New England) my husband and I were on a downtown adventure to the new Border’s bookstore (read: now out of business) when we saw a large crowd. We shoved our way through the people to see what… Read more
Halloween Mad Libs at Speech Club
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Every single school day at 8:45 I wait to receive my “Speech Club” students. These are my older (3rd-5th grade) articulation students who need a small daily dose of articulation practice. The teacher agreed last year to let me give this a try, taking kids before the school… Read more