At Dynamic Speech & Language Therapy all treatment plans begin with a comprehensive evaluation focused on addressing functional communication. This allows the SLP to develop a meaningful treatment plan.
Fundamental areas to a comprehensive assessment include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Client/Family interview that takes into consideration pertinent case history such as medical, family history, developmental, and social history
- Review of hearing, vision, motor, and cognitive status
- Medical concerns/treatments
- Consideration of ethnicity, socioeconomic, cultural and linguistic background
- Client/Families concerns and priorities
- Norm-referenced standardized measures
- Oral Motor Examination
- Criterion-referenced measures
- Self or parent-report
- Observational Rating Scales/Checklists
- Informal observations in multiple settings
- Speech Sample, Language Sample, Conversational Sample, Writing sample and/or analysis of academic work samples
- File review of existing data
- Informal measures/probes
- Dynamic Assessment
