S&L Assisting Exam 1

Criterion Validity

• measures how well a tests results correspond to other tests of the same material

• ex: two different vocab tests showing the same results.

Content Validity

• measures whether a test covers all of the materials the test is said to cover

  • ex: if you give a test for a language disorder, the testing material should cover material related to a language disorder

Interrater Reliability

• how a test is scored when one person gives it, and when another person gives it

Intrarater Reliability

• when you yourself give multiple tests and the scores are similar

Test-Retest Reliability

• when someone takes the same test multiple times and gets similar results

Positive Predictive Power

• ability for a test to predict somebody’s skills correctly with that specific test

  • ex: so, for those you give that test to in the future, does it correctly identify other people in the future

Sensitivity

• looks at the test’s ability to classify people as disordered when you already know

  • ex: they have a previous diagnosis

Specificity

looks at a test’s ability to classify people who don’t have a disorder

Ethnographic Interviewing

• probes for information that are open-ended questions and include questions that elicit a response about how the client is doing

• ex: “Describe what happens when your child is not understood?”

What are fair testing practices?

• requires SLPs to incorporate activities that do not negatively impact an individual based on their age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, language, or other personal characteristics

You are conducting an evaluation at a school. You ask the child to tell you a story that goes along with a single picture. What part of the evaluation is this activity?

testing

Luis appropriately responds to tones at 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz in both ears. However, he did not respond to tones at 500 Hz. What are the results of the hearing screening?

did not pass

You want to quickly examine the speech skills of an entire classroom to see who needs further testing and who is appropriate for their age. What type of assessment do you want to complete?

Screening

Where do you find a true score?

it is in between the confidence interval

What are some risk factors of Developmental Language Disorder?

• genetics

• environment

• low SES

• Mother’s educational level

• prematurity/low birth weight

What is parallel play?

a kid playing and someone else by them playing, but they aren’t playing together

What is Cooperative play?

kids are working on the same task together to reach the same goal

What is Solidary Play?

playing by oneself

What is Associative Play?

kids are starting to play together, interacting a little bit

What tones are administered to ensure that an audiometer is working properly?

50 dB

What would you be calculating based on a child’s semantic abilities?

• number of words they know, Lexicon

What are part B services and who qualifies for them?

ages 3-21

What are part C services and who qualifies for them?

birth to 3 years and not a single day after 3