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Select from a range of screening tools from Pearson to help detect characteristics of autism spectrum disorders. Our collection includes instruments to evaluate a child’s sensory processing skills. We also offer resources to evaluate social skills and provide intervention recommendations.

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Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile®

The Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile is a self-questionnaire that helps you understand sensory processing patterns and effects on functional performance.

Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Scale (ASDS)

Obtain an AS Quotient that indicates the likelihood that an individual has Asperger Syndrome. Speech-language pathologists, therapists, parents, teachers, or siblings answer the 50 yes/no items drawn from five specific areas of behavior: Cognitive, Maladaptive, Language, Social, and Sensorimotor. The five subtest scores provide comparative information. The total score identifies individuals with Asperger Syndrome. Use the test to document behavioral progress as a result of intervention or to target goals on the student's IEP.

Autism Spectrum Rating Scales (ASRS™)

Multi-informant measure to identify symptoms, behaviors, and associated features of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autism Training

We are pleased to offer professional development resources – with a focus on innovative learning and delivering practical information that you can readily apply.

BASC™-2 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BASC-2 BESS)

The BASC-2 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BASC-2 BESS) screeners identify students at risk for behavior and emotional problems.

BASC™-2 Progress Monitor

Use the BASC™-2 Progress Monitor to easily monitor progress after behavioral interventions. Covers externalizing and ADHD Problems, Internalizing Problems, Social Withdrawal and Adaptive Skills.

CDM® Internet

The CDM® Internet is an Online Delivery System of the CDM®-R, a career planning assessment of abilities, interests, and work values.

CDM®-R: Harrington-O'Shea Career Decision-Making® System–Revised

CDM®-R: Harrington-O'Shea Career Decision-Making® System–Revised is a self-scored career planning assessment of abilities, interests, and work values.

Children’s Communication Checklist—2 U.S. Edition (CCC—2)

The Children’s Communication Checklist—2 (CCC—2) is a parent or caregiver rating scale, which rates aspects of communication, and screens for general language and pragmatic language impairment.

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.

Intervention,Books

Exploring Nouns and Exploring Verbs, Sterling Edition™, Laureate Learning Systems®

Exploring Nouns and Exploring Verbs, Laureate Learning Systems: Encourages exploration of and interaction with vocabulary items in natural settings.

Intervention

First Categories, Sterling Edition™, Laureate Learning Systems®

First Categories, Laureate Learning Systems: This program’s fun activities teach categorization skills.

Intervention

First Words, First Words II, and First Verbs, Sterling Edition™, Laureate Learning Systems®

First Words, First Words II, and First Verbs, Laurate Learning Systems: Helps children and adults with special needs master essential early vocabulary.

Intervention

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.

Intervention

Greenspan Social-Emotional Growth Chart

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

Intervention

Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile®

Provides a standard method for measuring an infant's sensory processing abilities. Helps therapist, early childhood teachers, and parents profile the effect of sensory processing on functional performance in the daily life of the infant. , Caregivers complete a judgment-based questionnaire, available in English or Spanish, reporting the frequency with which infants respond to various sensory experiences (Almost Always, Frequently, Occasionally, Seldom, or Almost Never. ), Provides validated and reliable scores as well as interpretation of results and case studies for your review.

Inside Out: What Makes a Person with Social Cognitive Deficits Tick?

This book is where to start to learn more about how social problems connect to academic problems, such as reading comprehension and written expression.

Books

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.

Intervention

Pronoun Perspective: 1st and 2nd Person, Sterling Edition™, Laureate Learning Systems®

Nouns Perspective, Laureate Learning Systems: Provides practice comprehending 1st and 2nd person pronouns from a narrative perspective.

Intervention

QuestionQuest™: Levels 1-3, Sterling Edition™, Laureate Learning Systems®

QuestionQuest, Laureate Learning Systems: Helps students understand and answer many common forms of questions.

Intervention

SenseAbilities Understanding Sensory Integration

SenseAbilities Understanding Sensory Integration: Educate parents and teachers of 5 to 12 year olds with this reproducible training resource.

Sensory Profile

The Sensory Profile helps you understand a child's sensory processing patterns in everyday situations and profile the sensory system's effect on functional performance.

Sensory Profile School Companion

The Sensory Profile School Companion is a standardized assessment using teacher observations of student sensory processing skills.

Sensory Profile Select Scoring Assistant

Select Software that fits with your Profile

Sensory Profile Supplement

Now Available – Quadrant Scores and Expanded Cut Scores for Easier Interpretation

Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) - Performance Screening Guide

The SSIS Performance Screening Guide focuses on observable behaviors in four skill areas: Prosocial Behaviors, Motivation to Learn, Reading Skills, Math Skills.

Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Classwide Intervention Program

The Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Classwide Intervention Program helps provide interventions that focus on the top 10 social skills.

Intervention

Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Rating Scales

The Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Rating Scales help evaluate social skills, problem behaviors, and academic competence.

Socially Curious and Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens & Young Adults

This anime-illustrated guidebook is for teens and young adults to read themselves to learn how the social mind is expected to work for us to effectively relate to others at school, at work, in the community and even at home.

Books

STAR Program

Use this comprehensive program to teach children with autism and other developmental disabilities the critical skills identified by the 2001 National Research Council.

Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students (2nd Printing)

This book provides step-by-step methods for teaching social-cognitive and -communicative skills to students who have these challenges that affect their school and home life.

Books

Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, 2nd Edition

This book addresses the challenges of many students, including those with high-functioning autism, Asperger syndrome, ADHD and similar social and communication challenges, to understandthat other people have perspectives that are different from their own.

Books

You are a Social Detective!

This entertaining comic book offers different ways that can be reviewed repeatedly with students to teach them how to develop their own social detective skills.

Books