Learn about a variety of informal assessment tools to help you better identify the true underlying difficulties your social learners face. Strategies will include a hands-on live demonstration focusing on different ways to target social competencies. Gain practical ideas to help you plan for treatment and strengthen your students’ IEP goals and outcomes whether providing in-person or online therapy.

1. Informal Dynamic
Assessment and Core
Treatment Strategies
By Chris Wenger, CCC-SLP

2. - Financial: I receive compensation for Boom
Learning and the BER conferences.
- Nonfinancial: I am the Secretary of Treasury
for the California Speech and Hearing
Association (CSHA) and currently the county
co-chair for West End SELPA SLP Council.
Disclosures

3. Informal
Dynamic
assessment!
What exactly is it? What’s
the importance of
assessing beyond
standardized measures?

4. My Background with dynamic assessments

5. The Mission

6. Article: Assessment of Social
Cognition and Related Skills
by Michelle Garcia Winner

7. Observations are HUGE!!!

8. Article: Assessment of Social
Cognition and Related Skills
by Michelle Garcia Winner
Getting to Know
the Student
* Have them ask questions about you now.
Informally assess skills!!!

9. Google Form: Questionnaires
bit.ly/BERSpeechForm

10. - Name
- Birthdate
- Address
- Phone Number
Writing Sample
If they struggle, assess if they self-advocate.

11. Set up Props & Photos
Use photos of friends, family and a variety of situations.

12. Video Clips
Visit Speech Dude channel on YouTube for a variety of clips!

13. Social Scenes
Social Language Development Scenes (from ProEd)

14. Social Scenes
Social Language Development Scenes (from ProEd)

15. Social Scene
Example
bookcreator.com

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