Assessment Core
Continued from Developmental Stuttering Curriculum Outline (Click Here to Return) [1]
C. ASSESSMENT CORE:
1. Goals of assessment
a. Purpose of assessment [why is the client/family coming to you?]
b. Generating diagnostic questions [what do you want to learn from the client/family?]
2. Interviewing/Case history
a. Key questions [Eliciting the client’s/family’s narrative/story]
b. Fundamentals of counseling during interviewing
3. Assessment measures/tools
a. Pre-assessment measures
b. (Non)Standardized assessment
RESOURCES [see others in Treatment Core [2]]:
Streaming Videos:
Assessing Preschoolers for Stuttering [3](Ellen M. Kelly)
Moving from Assessment to Intervention Planning [4] (Sheryl Gottwald)
Scoring Disfluencies [5]* (Diane Parris)
Making Evaluations Easier: Combined Child Fluency and Language Assessment Using Free FluCalc and KidEval Software [6] (Nan Bernstein Ratner)
Podcast:
Using the Vanderbilt Responses to Your Child’s Speech (VRYCS) to Learn How Parents of CWS View Their Interactions [8] (Cara Singer and Ellen Kelly)
c. Assessment of related areas/concerns/developmental milestones/abilities
4. Differential diagnosis
5. Prognosis
a. Readiness for change
b. Support networks
c. Preschool prognosis for recovery vs. persistence
6. Recommendations
a. Next steps for client/family
b. Referrals
7. Follow-Up
Streaming Video:
Stuttering Therapy: What Needs to Change and Who Decides? [9] (Patricia Zebrowski)