Assessments

(In this section: General Info, Artic/Phonology, Autism/Pragmatic Skills, Bilingual Resources, Fluency, Language, Low-Incidence, Pre-K, Selective Mutism, Voice)

GENERAL INFORMATION

Organized by category. From HomeSpeechHome.com

From Auburn Univ Speech and Hearing Clinic.

Includes stardard scores, percentiles, scaled scores. Chart is on page 4.

Severity matrix for comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and pronunciation.

Free form to summarize evaluation results.

Free survey for child, parents, friends, siblings, teachers, and others about the child's speech. Available in many languages.

Informal video from Jennifer Moeller, SLP.


By grade, includes artic, fluency, language, pragmatics, and voice. Zipped file.

Checklist of symptoms to use as a screener.

Advice from the test publishers, Pearsons.

Key points from ASHA for successful use of teleassessment.

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.

How to create test templates and great reports.

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.  "It was the first phonology test to be published that was based on a normative sample." 

Assesses auditory skill, not reading. Grades 2+.

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.

Signs that artic issue might be apraxia. From ASHA.

Free Place, Voice, Manner chart to analyze patterns of errors. Good for newbies.

Includes norms for ages 6-13.

Good for parents, with annotations from SLP and references.

From Caroline Bowen, includes speech perception, phonology, stimulability, and more.

From MNSU. Includes directions, norms, and references.

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.

Updated artic norms by Crowe and McLeod, free in TpT.

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.

(Dewalt & Summers) Has norms and forms for ages birth - 10 years.

Article from Edutopia - 3 basic methods to assess SEL, and how to report progress.

Teacher checklist for school-aged students.

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.

Article w good info about "average" speakers.

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.

Free online autism screener for toddlers, from AutismSpeaks.org.

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.

From ASHA, many different languages available.

From George Mason Univ, VA. Most languages are included.

Parent checklist in English and Spanish about home language.

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.

From The Stuttering Foundation.

Tool to help you tease out if it is stuttering or cluttering. CLICK HERE for the scoring chart.

From Stuttering Therapy Resources.

Rating scale 1-4 can be found on p.26.

Tons of info re: assessment, treatment, and more.

(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.

Keep a tally of different types of stuttering events from a speech sample.

Free rating scale for children who stutter. Can be used to document impact.

Normal dysfluencies, rates of spontaneous remission, and symptoms of true stuttering.

LANGUAGE RESOURCES

Updated 2020 to make it more racially sensitive.

Quick 1-page checklist of things to look for in a language sample. Free on TpT from Speechy Musings.

Free form to summarize evaluation results.

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.

Free assessment for narrative skills, w norms for PreK - 3rd grade.

Narrative assessment, adapted from Gillam and Gillam, 2010.

Help to decide if the problem is a learning disability or a language disorder.

Multi-modality screener from Vanderbilt University.

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.

Used mostly by OTs, but lots of good info for SLPs.

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.

Study done after many complaints about the test.

Free online autism screener for toddlers, from AutismSpeaks.org.

Free on TpT, from Communication Window.

Ages 0-5. Free on TpT.

Free online screening for ages 0-5, from SpeechTherapyTalk.

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

From Provo City School District.

For parents, from Cobb County Schools, GA. Also available in Spanish below.

From SLT, normed for 7 yrs and up.

For parents, from Cobb County Schools, GA. See above for English.

From Cobb County School District.

From Tennessee DOE.

Interactive digital informal assessment in TinyTap. See also the voice training modules for stress, intonation, and phrasing.