Do you work with adolescents? If so, you definitely need to check out this wonderful product from the brilliant Tatyana Elleseff of Smart Speech Therapy! I am so excited to review this product with you, as Tatyana continually provides terrific information regarding the assessment and treatment of a huge variety of speech and language disorders. This product is no exception, and well, checklists just make me happy (yes, I am such a geek, lol!).
This 6 page checklist (overall product is 10 pages) is chock full of the information you need to make an informed decision regarding assessment. Here is a sample of what you will find in this product:
This comprehensive checklist is well organized. Here is a list of many of the areas included:
- Receptive, Expressive, and Pragmatic language
- Executive functioning
- Memory, Attention, and Cognition
- Vocabulary
- Discourse
- Speech
- Voice
- Prosody
- Resonance
- Reading
- Writing
- Problem solving
Each area contains a well thought out list of characteristics and difficulties associated to assist in the determination of a need for evaluation. The checklist also includes an area to describe the student's most significant areas of difficulty, as well as any additional information necessary when making a decision on assessment. Tatyana suggests giving this checklist out to several individuals to assist in the decision-making process.
This product will be very useful for me in the Middle and High Schools in my disrict, as I am constantly being asked to screen students. This checklist will allow the teachers and parents to express their concerns, and give me the valuable, timesaving information I need to make an informed decision about wat areas of speech and language I need to assess.
So, where can you pick up this awesome product? Well, you can head on over to her online store to purchase it now HERE for $10.99. Tatyana has also generously allowed me to provide one of my readers with a copy of it. Enter via the rafflecopter below!
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Bio: Tatyana Elleseff MA CCC-SLP is a bilingual SLP with a full time hospital affiliation as well as private practice in Central, NJ. She specializes in working with multicultural, internationally and domestically adopted as well as at-risk children with complex communication disorders. For more information visit her BLOG, STORE, or follow her Facebook page.
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