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Our early childhood assessments measure developmental progress and identify delays. Included are screeners and tools to identify children who may need extra support in school. Each instrument is developmentally appropriate assessments are culturally and linguistically suitable for diverse populations.

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40,000 Selected Words Organized by Letter, Sound, and Syllable

40,000 Selected Words Organized by Letter, Sound, and Syllable: Reference with extensive index to help you quickly find the sounds you need, is a must for teaching consonant sounds.

Assessment of Literacy and Language (ALL)

Use the Assessment of Literacy and Language (ALL) to identify children at risk for reading difficulties due to an underlying language disorder. Language screening

Auditory Skills Assessment (ASA)

Auditory Skills Assessment (ASA) to help screen children as young as 3:6 for early auditory and phonological skills—and get fast results to put children on the right track.

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Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development®, Third Edition (Bayley-III®)

The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition (Bayley-III) multi-scale battery tests 5 developmental domains: social-emotional behavior, adaptive behavior, cognitive, motor, language.

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Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development®, Third Edition (Bayley-III®) Screening Test

Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development®, Third Edition (Bayley-III®) Screening Test helps screen for cognitive, language, and motor developmental delays.

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Bracken Basic Concept Scale – Third Edition: Receptive (BBCS-3:R)

The BBCS-3:R (Bracken Basic Concepts Scale, Receptive) helps evaluate a child's mastery of basic concepts essential to academic success.

Brief Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (BITSEA)

The Brief Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) helps identify red-flag indicators of atypical behavior in only 10 minutes.

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Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP)

Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP) helps assess articulation, phonology and oral motor discorders. Differential diagnosis

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DIAL™-3 (Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning)

Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL-3) is an early childhood screener in both English and Spanish.

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DIAL™-4 (Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning™, Fourth Edition)

Use the updated DIAL-4 (Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning) screener to help predict academic success provides advantages for large groups. Provides time savings, easier administration and enhanced reliability.

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Dyslexia Early Screening Test–Second Edition (DEST-2)

Dyslexia Early Screening Test–Second Edition profile sstrengths and weaknesses often associated with dyslexia for optimal outcomes.

Dyslexia Screening Test–Junior

Use the Dyslexia Screening Test–Junior to identify Students at Risk for Reading Failure.

Dyslexia Screening Test–Secondary (DST–S)

Use the Dyslexia Screening Test–Secondary (DST–S) to identify Students at Risk for Reading Failure.

Early Screening Inventory-Revised (ESI-R) 2008 Edition

the Early Screening Inventory-Revised (ESI-R) 2008 Edition is a brief developmental screening tool for young children.

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Early Screening Profiles (ESP)

The Early Screening Profiles (ESP) helps measure cognitive, language, motor, self-help, and social development.

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Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Briefs

EBP Briefs is a journal for clinicians who need to evaluate the best evidence and make the best decisions in the shortest possible time. It focuses process and product, showing how any SLP can integrate EBP into their real, daily work.

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FirstSTEp™: Screening Test for Evaluating Preschoolers (FirstSTEp)

FirstSTEp: Screening Test for Evaluating Preschoolers helps detect even mild developmental delays. Identify children who need in-depth diagnostic testing.

Screening

Get Ready to Read! Revised

Assess early literacy skills more easily and effectively with Get Ready to Read! Revised.

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Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale (GADS)

The GADS helps evaluate children with unique behavioral problems who may have Asperger's Disorder and differentiate from those who have autism or other related pervasive developmental disabilities.

Greenspan Social-Emotional Growth Chart

Greenspan Social-Emotional Growth Chart, a screening questionnaire for infants and young children.

Screening

Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (ITSEA)

Intervention guidance for social-emotional and competency developmental delays in young children

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KLPA-2: Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis, Second Edition

The KLPA-2: Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis, Second Edition provides a comprehensive diagnosis of phonological processes, enabling you to make more informed therapy decisions.

Mullen Scales of Early Learning

Mullen Scales of Early Learning is a developmentally integrated system that assesses language, motor, and perceptual abilities.

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Ounce Scale, The

The Ounce Scale is an observational assessment for infants’ and toddlers’ growth, accomplishments, areas of difficulty, and temperament.

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Parents' Observation of INfants and Toddlers (POINT)

The Parents' Observation of INfants and Toddlers (POINT) is a developmental rating scale designed to identify young children with potential problems who may be in need of further diagnostic assessment.

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Peabody Early Experiences Kit (PEEK)

Use Peabody Early Experiences Kit (PEEK) activities for cognitive, social and language skill development.

Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI)

The Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) helps evaluate functional disabilities with score forms and an easy-to-understand manual. Stephen M. Haley, Wendy J. Coster, Larry H. Ludlow, Jane T. Haltiwanger, and Peter J. Andrellos

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Pervasive Developmental Disorders Screening Test-II (PDDST-II)

Pervasive Developmental Disorders Screening Test-II (PDDST-II) helps detect autism at an early age to begin intervention.

Pre-Reading Inventory of Phonological Awareness (PIPA)

The premier test for preliterate children on the path to reading success

PrimerPASO

The PrimerPASO Spanish language screener identifies children at risk for developmental delays.

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Processing Power: A Guide to CAPD Assessment and Management

Processing Power: A Guide to CAPD Assessment and Management helps bridge the gap between theory and therapy.

SCAN–3:A Tests for Auditory Processing Disorders in Adolescents and Adults (SCAN-3:A)

SCAN-3:A Tests for Auditory Processing Disorders in Adolescents and Adults is designed for individuals ages 13-50 years old.

SCAN–3:C Tests for Auditory Processing Disorders for Children (SCAN-3:C)

SCAN–3:C Tests for Auditory Processing Disorders for children is designed to children ages 5-12 years old.

SCAN–A: Test for Auditory Processing Disorders in Adolescents and Adults

Administer to clients who have normal hearing acuity, but poor understanding of speech when listening conditions are less than optimal. Includes four subtests—Filtered Words, Auditory Figure Ground, Competing Words, and Competing Sentences. Use with a portable audiocassette player with two sets of headphones and a "y" adapter.

SCAN–C: Test for Auditory Processing Disorders in Children–Revised

Give to children who have normal peripheral hearing but who appear to have poor listening skills, short auditory attention span, or difficulty understanding speech in the presence of background noise. SCAN–C helps rule out central auditory processing disorders and ADHD. Administer using a portable CD player or an audiometer with CD capabilities. The child repeats the words and sentences heard on the CD, which is produced by Auditec™. This new edition includes: New child-friendly instructions with enhanced interpretation chapter and case studies. New norms for 5 to 11 year olds, with qualitative information on 3 and 4 year olds. New test/retest reliability and construct validity studies.

The Bridge of Vocabulary: Evidence - Based Activities for Academic Success

The Bridge of Vocabulary: Evidence - Based Activities for Academic Success offers the only explicit vocabulary intervention program tied to evidence-based research and curriculum standards and developed for both general and special educators.

Work Sampling for Head Start™

Work Sampling System For Head Start is a curriculum-embedded assessment to help systematically document children’s developmental skills, knowledge, behavior and academics.

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Work Sampling System®. The

The Work Sampling System is a curriculum-embedded, observational assessment of children’s developmental skills, knowledge, behavior and academics.

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