Assessments and Evaluations
SLP's utilize a variety or informal and formal diagnostic measures
and assessments to determine a client's overall communication
functioning. A comprehensive assessment will determine your child's
strength's and areas of need so that a comprehensive and functional
treatment plan can be developed to best meet their needs. Potential
areas of assessment include but are not limited to: oral-motor
functioning, articulation, phonology, fluency, voice, receptive
language, expressive language, cognition, executive functioning,
pragmatic language, feeding/swallowing.
Assessments/Testing Offered
Below is a list of common speech-language pathology assessments used by SLPs that can be a good starting point. You’ll find assessments for:
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Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)
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Articulation and phonology assessments
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Myofuctional assessments
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Aphasia, cognitive communication and traumatic brain injury assessments
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Comprehensive language assessments
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Early intervention and preschool
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Literacy and narrative language
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Stuttering/fluency assessments
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Reading assessments
Because SLPs can work with people across the lifespan and the breadth of the field is expansive, there are many different assessment tools available. These tools have been norm-referenced on particular populations, so each SLP needs to use their clinical judgment to design therapy that is culturally responsive and recognizes neurodiversity.