476 Quiz 1

PPVT Qualification Criteria

1.5 SD below the mean on 2+ measures OR below the 7th percentile on 2+ tests

Basal (PPVT basal?)

Starting score: how many items a student must answer in a row correctly to establish baseline

PPVT: 3 consecutive correct responses

Ceiling (PPVT ceiling?)

Stopping point: How many items a client can get wrong in a row before the test ends

PPVT: 6 consecutive incorrect responses

Raw scores

Total items correct: ceiling - basal = raw score

What areas of language does PPVT test?

Receptive Vocabulary (listening and understanding spoken word)

Ages to give PPVT test?

2:6 years all the way to 90+

Standardized Tests

Same test for reliable results.

Can be norm-referenced or not.

Standardization may refer to specific procedures rather than norms.

Criterion - Reference Tests

Assess whether a student has achieved specific goals and objectives.

Often created by teachers

Standardized test or Criterion reference test: Which one would you give? Why?

Criterion reference test because it assess whether a student has achieved a specific goal objective in their language

Pros of Standardized Testing

Good for qualifying someone (in school districts)

Pros of Language Sample

Shows where someone is in their day to day with language (more real world examples) but more time consuming and requires trained clinicians

Why do you have to give a standardized test the exact way it comes?

For reliability, fairness, and accuracy

What is the format of a Diagnostic Report?

-Client demographics (parents names, address, contact info, bday, chronological age)

-Background information

-Assessment Results

-Clinical Impressions

-Recommendations & Goals

Preview + Frontload (Literacy therapy technique)

-Pre-teach vocabulary

-Activate topic knowledge

-Give brief synopsis to reduce language load

Discuss + Rehearse (Literacy therapy technique)

-Use small group convos to explore word meanings

-Make inferences

-Rehearse ideas aloud

Organize visually (Literacy therapy technique)

-Map story structure

-Main ideas

-Details

-Writing plans with paper or digital organizer

IRI Levels

-INDEPENDENT

• 97–100% accuracy

• ≥ 90% comprehension

• Reads the material independently.

-INSTRUCTIONAL

• 94–96% accuracy

• 75% comprehension

• Reads with a typical amount of classroom help.

-FRUSTRATIONAL

• < 94% accuracy

• < 50% comprehension

• The material is too difficult for classroom reading.

Why do you want to know norms for a test?

To have a reference point to compare clients scores to a larger representative group for accurate measures

-compares individual scores to statistical norms

What to do if someone speaks a different dialect/language

distinguish between a normal linguistic different or a communication disorder

Chronological Age calculation

year, month, day of testing, minus year month day of clients bday