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)

Insurance Reimbursement for Stuttering Therapy: Dos, Don'ts, and Give It a Shots [7] (Katie Gore)

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)

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