Evaluations

A speech and language evaluation is performed in order to gain insight regarding your child's speech and language skills within the context of his or her total development. Standardized tests, observational scales, and parental input are used in order to gather information about your child's communication skills. Evaluations are used in order to assess some or all of the following:

• Receptive language - what a child understands
• Expressive language - what a child communicates
• Social language (i.e., pragmatics)
• Vocabulary
• Oral motor skills and/or feeding
• Speech articulation
• Fluency
• Auditory processing
• Phonological awareness
• Voice

Level I Evaluation
A Level 1 Evaluation is usually scheduled for the evaluation of voice, fluency, or speech sound development. During the evaluation the child will have a hearing screening, an articulation test, and an oral mechanism evaluation. A general language sample is also collected to determine your child's language abilities. This evaluation is scheduled for 90 minutes.

Level 2 Evaluation
A Level 2 Evaluation consists of more in depth testing of the areas covered by the Level 1 Evaluation. The Level 2 Evaluation is normally scheduled when there are language, auditory processing, or reading concerns. This evaluation requires two 90 minute sessions.