Children's Learning Connection - Orange County, CA

Assessment

As part of your child’s pediatric therapy assessment, CLC staff may utilize parent/caregiver interview, past report review, clinical observation, direct interation with your child, nonstandardized testing, and standardized testing.

CLC uses a wide range of standardized assessment instruments including but not limited to:

• Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills-Revised (ABLLS-R)
• Bayley Scales of Infant Development (Bayley)
• Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Preschool (BREIF-Pre)
• Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency
• Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF)
• Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Preschool (CELF-Pre)
• Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales (CSBS)
• Developmental Assessment of Young Children (DAYC)
• Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test (EOWPVT)
• Gardener Social Maturity Developmental Scale
• Goldman-Fristoe Articulation Test
• Kaufman Speech Praxis Test (KSPT)
• Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis
• Motivational Assessment Scale (MAS)
• Motor-Free Visual Perceptual Test (MVPT)
• Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (PDMS)
• Phonological Awareness Test
• Photo Articulation Test (PAT-3)
• Psycho-educational Profile-Revised (PEP-R)
• Rosetti Infant Toddler Language Scale
• Receptive Expressive Emergent Language Scale (REEL)
• Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test (ROWPVT)
• Rice Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Impairment
• Sensory Integration and Praxis Test (SIPT)
• Sensory Profile
• Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development-Revised (SICD-R)
• Test of Auditory Processing-Third Edition (TAPS-3)
• Test of Auditory Reasoning and Processing Skills (TARPS)
• Test of Early Language Development-Primary (TELD-P)
• Test of Problem Solving (TOPS)
• Test of Semantic Skills (TOSS)
• Test of Verbal Conceptualization and Fluency (TVCF)
• Test of Visual Motor Integration (VMI)

For Behavioral Assessments, CLC staff may utilize a functional behavioral assessment (FBA).

For comprehensive programs, CLC considers the first 30 days of intervention as the “Diagnostic Treatment Month.”

The treatment team will use this time to:

• Get to know your child, and determine the approach that would be appropriate for your child.
• Complete initial assessments and write reports to support findings
• Establish goals and objectives
• Establish the parent as an active member of the treatment team
• Structure the therapy setting
• Determine the amount of time needed from each clinical discipline after the first month of treatment, based on the child’s initial goals and objectives.
• Determine the total frequency of intervention that will be recommended after the first month of treatment, based on the child’s initial goals and objectives.

The CLC comprehensive program assessment protocol may include the following:

• CLC Curriculum assessment
• CLC Learning to Learn Checklist
• Functional Behavioral Assessment
• Parent and caregiver interviews
• Clinical observations in different settings
• Additional informal assessments as determined necessary by clinical staff (e.g., speech, language, and communication samples, play samples, skill checklists, etc.).
• Standardized assessments are conducted as determined necessary by clinical staff

In addition to the initial assessment, updated assessments and progress reports are provided on an ongoing basis.