This workshop focuses on the assessment of students with suspected articulation impairments
that might qualify them for speech services in the schools. Specific formal and informal testing will
be considered along with interpretation of findings and possible recommendations to the Admission-Review-Dismissal (ARD) Committee using case studies and hands-on practice of analyses. It will be presented across two half-day sessions.
Session Learning Objectives:
The participants will have
1. developed an evaluation plan for assessing articulation skills in a case study scenario,
2. practiced informal analyses of articulation data, and
3. interpreted articulation assessment results to formulate a summary statement and
recommendations to the ARD Committee.
Day 1 Agenda:
8:30 - 9:00 Why articulation identification is important, legal issues, purposes of evaluation driving procedures
9:00 - 9:45 Choosing informal articulation assessment tools
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:20 Case Study 1: Planning the evaluation
10:20 - 11:00 Case Study 1: Analysis practice
11:00 - 11:15 Summary, questions, reflections
Day 2 Agenda:
8:30 - 9:15 Case Study 1: Interpretation, recommendations, Individualized Education Plan (IEP) documents
9:15 - 9:30 When kids don't qualify as Speech-Language Impaired
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 10:30 Case Study 2: Planning and analysis
10:30 - 11:00 Case Study 2: Interpretation, recommendations, IEP documents
11:00 - 11:15 Summary, questions, reflections
This course is offered for 0.5 ASHA CEUs
(Intermediate level, Professional area).
Presenter: Julia A. Eyer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Julia Eyer is employed by Region 20 Education Service Center. Financial relationships: She receives a salary from Region 20 ESC and has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
Requests for participant accommodations are available during the registration process.
Refund requests and complaints should be directed to Central.Registration@esc20.net .