Assessment and Treatment of Child Language Impairments

School of Medicine

The primary focus is assessment of developmental and academic oral language skills, birth through high school, with a secondary focus on reading, writing, and intellectual assessment. Assessment measures include developmental scales, commercially published norm-referenced measures, criterion-referenced instruments, research-validated experimental measures, and progress monitoring tools. In addition, students gain knowledge and skills in collaborating with families and teachers on assessment of children's linguistic abilities. Students develop knowledge and skills to select and implement appropriate assessment instruments, to interpret assessment findings for differential diagnosis and IDEA eligibility, for determination of child and family strengths and needs, and to apply assessment findings for describing present level of performance, writing IEP/IFSP goals and objectives, and planning intervention.