Expressive Language: Oral and Written Language

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Expressive Language Oral and Written Language
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Competency Exam

• 10 general concept questions
• 10 cumulative
• 30 application exercise
• 50 over reading and lecture from
• Adaptive behavior
• Phonological processing
• Reading Mastery
• Oral Written Language
• All Sattler Readings
  

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Test of Written Language

• Measures various aspects of writing
• Format
• Contrived structured
• Spontaneous-free writing
• Age 7 to 17
• Alternate forms A and B

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Contrived Subtests

• Vocabulary-write a sentence that includes a
  particular word
• Spelling (1,0) Spelling correct spelling of
  sentence
• Style (Spelling test)- capitalization,
  punctuation, grammar
• Logical Sentences- fix the error in a sentence
• Sentence Combining-combine two sentences into 1
  whole sentence

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Spontaneous

• Based on written story administered from inside
  record form.
• 6. Contextual conventions-
• 7. Contextual Language
• 8. Story Construction

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Scoring

• Calculate Raw score for each subtest
• Use Appendix A to get SS
• Use Appendix B to convert Sums of SS
• Can get sums of 8, 5, and 3 subtests

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Peabody Picture Vocabulary

• Purpose test of listening comprehension,
  receptive vocabulary, and level of vocabulary
• Can be used to
• Establish rapport
• Screening
• Giftedness and mental retardation
• English language proficiency
• Aphasia
• Language assessment for those with expressive
  language problems (e.g. autism, withdrawn)
• Assessment for those with general motor
  impairment (eg. Cerebral palsy)

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PPVT

• Age 2-6 to 90
• About 10 minutes to administer
• Artwork balanced with respect to ethnicity and
  gender

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PPVT Administration

• Start with sample items (8ltAB, 8gtCD)
• Start with Set corresponding to Age
• Always administer entire set
• Record errors per item
• Basal0 to 1 errors in a set
• Ceiling8 or more errors
• Raw Last item in ceiling set total errors
• Raw to SS (Norms Table 1)