Assessments
(In this section: General Info, Artic/Phonology, Autism/Pragmatic Skills, Bilingual Resources, Fluency, Language, Low-Incidence, Pre-K, Selective Mutism, Voice)
GENERAL INFORMATION
Includes stardard scores, percentiles, scaled scores. Chart is on page 4.
Free survey for child, parents, friends, siblings, teachers, and others about the child's speech. Available in many languages.
By grade, includes artic, fluency, language, pragmatics, and voice. Zipped file.
Online forms to complete, including parent/teacher questionnaire, assessment summary, severity rating scales for artic, lang, flu, voice.
Scoring rubrics to determine severity for artic, lang, voice, and fluency.
Lets you convert standard scores to percentile ranks, scaled scores, and more. From Ritenour Schools.
ARTICULATION/PHONOLOGY
From ICPLA.org in the U.K., this has every mark for every kind of sound distortion you can imagine.
Non-invasive peripheral oral assessment that includes range of motion, muscle tone, etc.
Part of Caroline Bowen's collection of free tests/screeners. Scroll down to last entry to download this artic/phon test. Â "It was the first phonology test to be published that was based on a normative sample."Â
Help with a differential diagnosis between dysarthria, apraxia, and phonological disorders, from Apraxia Kids.
No standard scores. Gives % to monitor progress or isolate trouble areas.
Free form w pics to sample sound production in words. No scores given.
Quick reference of types of phonological processes, examples, age levels. Free.
From Caroline Bowen, includes speech perception, phonology, stimulability, and more.
Free to download, this parent survey is for speech sound productions/CAS. Available in multiple other languages HERE.
Free printable of Dr. J. Rosner's classic phonological awareness test , ages 4-8. Scores give grade level equivalents.
Not sure which sounds impact intelligibility the most? See the references behind this list from ClassLab.
Free screener from FeedthePeds.com. (You must give them your email address to have it sent to you.)
AUTISM/PRAGMATIC SKILLS
Advancing Social-Communication and Play, from UNC. This is a free assessment for preschoolers with autism. Leads to goals and interventions.
Article from Edutopia - 3 basic methods to assess SEL, and how to report progress.
Online rating scale of preferences, with auto scoring. Note that this treats the "spectrum" as a linear scale of severity.
For parents and professionals to decide if evaluation is warranted. Not an evaluation.
Hierarcy of social/pragmatic skills related to executive function. Washington Univ., 2017.
With age norms. Normed for hearing and hearing- impaired students.
Free 1-page checklist of pragmatic skills from birth through 60 months. From Preschool Speechie PLUS. See also her free pragmatics checklist for older students to self-rate.
BILINGUAL RESOURCES
Chart to sort out appropriate referrals for sp/lang eval if student is bilingual.
School-Aged Language Assessment Measures, free to download with scoring guide (Eng & Span). Also available for PreK ages.
FLUENCY RESOURCES
Very comprehensive, includes history, eval results, impact, goals, and more. Would be a great basis for writing a report.
A list of freebies on the internet for cluttering and stuttering. From MNSU.
Tool to help you tease out if it is stuttering or cluttering. CLICK HERE for the scoring chart.
(Yaruss, 1998) Alternative way to assess stuttering without doing a transcription.
ASHA's recommendations and resources - cluttering, normal dysfluencies, or bilingual issues?
Refer teachers to p. 52 of this 2020 DIBELS manual that specifically says not to use this reading test with students diagnosed with a fluency disorder.
LANGUAGE RESOURCES
Quick 1-page checklist of things to look for in a language sample. Free on TpT from Speechy Musings.
School-aged Language Assessment Material, free download with norms. Available in several languages. PreK through 12th gr.
Online parent questionnaire to assess strengths and weaknesses of non- or minimally-verbal kids. Can be useful for AAC eval as well. Note: interventions based on these results can be found HERE.
Free evidence-based 20-minute language sample analysis system. Wide assortment of training videos available.
Narrative assessment, adapted from Gillam and Gillam, 2010.
Help to decide if the problem is a learning disability or a language disorder.
Interactive digital activity in TinyTap to probe which of the 5 most popular word retrieval strategies might work best for your students.
LOW-INCIDENCE CASES
This is a Facebook group for ASL interpreters, if you need to find someone to do a bilingual eval.
From Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss. For PreK-Elem, assesses where they are with developmental stages, but no normative data give.
Resources from the University of Minnesota. Language assessment info begins on page 29.
From The Oregon Project, this is a skills checklist for assessing visually-impaired/blind children ages birth to 6.0 years.
PRE-K RESOURCES
Starting on p. 25, this contains a general screener, and more in-depth screeners of attention, play/social interaction, understanding language, using language, and articulation. Ages 1-5 yrs.
Evaluation form and milestones, from Lori DeYoung Ruwe, including Pragmatics, Rec Lang, Exp Lang, & Artic for birth - 6.0 years.
Developmental levels of pre-symbolic and symbolic play skills, with associated language skills.
Sample report for play-based assessment above, from Lori DeYoung Ruwe, shared on Facebook 2/10/20.
SELECTIVE MUTISM
Form used to help in the evaluation of the child with symptoms of Selective Mutism to help develop a diagnosis and the development of school-based accommodations/interventions. Free from SelectiveMutismCenter.org
Interactive PDF that you can email to parents to fill out electronically. From OxfordClinicalPysch.com. CLICK HERE for a printable version to send home.
3 stages of communication behavior in social contexts. From the SMART Center.
VOICE RESOURCES
For parents, from Cobb County Schools, GA. Also available in Spanish below.
Interactive digital informal assessment in TinyTap. See also the voice training modules for stress, intonation, and phrasing.