Pragmatics + Autism

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 Sensory Profile family of products includes the best-selling Sensory Profile, Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile, Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile, and the new Sensory Profile School Companion. The expansive age-range of Sensory Profile products allows you to confidently evaluate sensory-related difficulties in clients, from birth to geriatric. Sensory Profile Supplement and Sensory Profile Select Scoring Assistant are also available!

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.

Assessing and Promoting Social Competence in Preschool Children

Help foster social competence

Intervention

BASC Monitor for ADHD Rating Scales & Software

A powerful tool to help evaluate the effectiveness of ADHD treatments.

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

Promote student success through comprehensive, systematic screening

BASC™-2 Progress Monitor

BASC-2 Progress Monitor to easily monitor progress after conducting BASC-2 interventions

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

Self-scored career planning assessment of abilities, interests, and work values

Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS)

This brief, 15-item behavior rating scale helps to identify and classify children with autism and to distinguish them from developmentally delayed children who do not have autism. Distinguishes mile-to-moderate from severe autism. Includes items from five prominent systems for diagnosing autism. Each item covers a particular characteristic, ability, or behavior.

Intervention

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

The CCC—2 was developed as a parent or caregiver rating scale, which rates aspects of communication, screens for general language and pragmatic language impairment.

Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale (GADS)

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. Use in the assessment process, to document behavioral progress, to target goals for IEPs, and for research purposes. A parent or professional who knows the child provides documentation about the essential behavior characteristics of Asperger's Disorder necessary for diagnosis. Thirty-two clearly stated items divided into four subscales describe specific, observable, and measurable behaviors.

Intervention

Greenspan Social-Emotional Growth Chart

Monitor the milestones of social-emotional development in infants and very 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.

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

Detect autism at an early age to begin intervention

Intervention

SenseAbilities Understanding Sensory Integration

Educate parents and teachers about sensory integration with this easy-to-understand, reproducible training resource for 5 to 12 year olds. Case examples help you train teachers and parents to apply practical information to real-life situations for all sensory domains. Use definitions covering both tactile and vestibular systems. Plus, learn how to avoid particular responses to sensory input by changing your touch or approach. Pick and choose the chapters you select need to individualize your training program. You'll find helpful ideas for adapting your clients' environment. Look for suggestions involving your clients' movement, playground equipment and additions, mealtime, bedtime, clothes and dressing, communication, and outings and travel.

Sensory Profile

The Sensory Profile family of products includes the best-selling Sensory Profile, Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile, Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile, and the new Sensory Profile School Companion. The expansive age-range of Sensory Profile products allows you to confidently evaluate sensory-related difficulties in clients, from birth to geriatric. Coming Fall 2006—Sensory Profile Supplement and Sensory Profile Select Scoring Assistant.

Sensory Profile School Companion

The Sensory Profile family of products includes the best-selling Sensory Profile, Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile, Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile, and the new Sensory Profile School Companion. The expansive age-range of Sensory Profile products allows you to confidently evaluate sensory-related difficulties in clients, from birth to geriatric. Coming Fall 2006—Sensory Profile Supplement and Sensory Profile Select Scoring Assistant.

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

Universal screener of key social, motivational, and academic behaviors in children.

Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Classwide Intervention Program

Interventions that focus on top 10 social skills

Intervention

Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Rating Scales

Gain detailed diagnostic information with direct links to intervention