Speech and Language Diagnostic Report Samples Alissa Jones, Celine Kirts, and Meridith Selekman Speech-Language Pathologists

WhAt do school-based Speech/Language Pathologists do? According to ASHA’s Professional Issues Statement (2010), “school-based Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP’s) help students meet the performance standards of a particular school district and state.” SLP’s have integral roles in education. Their primary responsibilities include: Prevention Assessment Intervention Program design Data collection/analysis Compliance

School-based SLP Roles and Responsibilities “SLP’s must determine how students’ academic strengths and weaknesses relate to speech, language, and communication disorders. To do this, SLP’s collect relevant student data in various contexts, develop intervention plans, and provide services in collaboration with others to meet students’ educational needs.” American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2010). Roles and responsibilities of speech-language pathologists in schools [Professional Issues Statement]. Available from www.asha.org/policy.

School-based SLP Roles and Responsibilities SLP’s work across all levels. These include: early intervention, Kindergarten, elementary, middle, junior high, and high schools. They serve the full range of communication disorders including those involving language, articulation, fluency, voice/resonance, and swallowing. SLP’s work with students whose disorders have a significant impact on their educational progress.

School-based SLP roles and responsibilities SLP’s highlight language and literacy. Current research supports the interrelationships between the language processes of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. SLP’s, like all educators, are accountable for student outcomes. Therefore, they are focused on gathering and interpreting data, evaluating growth and complying with federal and state mandates.

ONE SLP Role/Responsibility: Assessment According to ASHA, “Speech-language assessment is a complex process. Assessing, describing, and interpreting an individual’s communication ability requires the integration of a variety of information gathered in the evaluation process. ASHA’s Preferred Practice Patterns for the Professions of Speech-Language Pathology (2004) indicates that comprehensive speech-language pathology assessment includes several components.” One of these components is the selection of standardized measures for speech, language, and cognitive communication.

ONE SLP role/Responsibility: Assessment Purpose of this project: To develop a useful assessment resource for therapists that would lessen the amount of groundwork a therapist would have to do when writing a diagnostic report. Intention: This fund of diagnostic report samples is meant to: assist with test interpretation leading to therapy based on best practices allow for the relevant application of test results give therapists more time to spend planning a well-thought out therapy program for students.

One SLP Role/Responsibility: Assessment What does it consist of? A concise, yet thorough, explanation of selected tests, and subtests, that can be used in an evaluation report. A format to report scores in an organized manner including assessment descriptors and sample write-ups. A comprehensive list of evaluation materials to assist therapists in selecting an appropriate assessment for specific students.

SLP’s Scope of Practice SLP’s assess students’ skills within the following areas: Language (Receptive, Expressive, Social) Articulation Fluency Voice/Resonance Swallowing Tests for this project were selected based on the most common referral questions received by the authors who work at an elementary level.

Language TESTs Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, Fourth Edition (CELF-4) Age Range: 5-21 years Administration time: 30-60 minutes Test of Language Development, Fourth Edition (TOLD-4) Age Range: 4-8:11 years Administration time: 60 minutes

Language Tests Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test (RWOPVT) Age Range: 2-80 years Administration Time: 15-20 minutes Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test (EOWPVT)

Language Tests Clinical Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL) Age Range: 3-21 years Administration Time: 30-45 minutes Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS) Age Range: 3-21:11 for LC/OE 5-21:11 for WE Administration Time: 10-30 minutes

Social Language Test Social Language Development Test (SLDT) Age Range: 6-11 years Administration Time: 45 minutes

Articulation Tests Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation, Second Edition (GFTA- 2) Age Range: 2-21:11 years Administration Time: 5-15 minutes Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP) Age Range: 3-8 years Administration Time: 10-15 minutes for Artic/Phonology 5 minutes for Oral Motor

Fluency Test Stuttering Severity Instrument, Third Edition (SSI- 3) Age Range: 2-10 years Administration Time: 10-20 minutes

References American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2010). Roles and responsibilities of speech-language pathologists in schools [Professional Issues Statement]. Available from www.asha.org/policy. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2004). Preferred Practice Patterns for the Professions of Speech-Language Pathology [Professional Issues Statement]. Available from www.asha.org/policy.

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