Dynamic Assessment for Language Learning

2017 | Education

This is a practical, accessible manual for Speech and Language Therapists and Educational Psychologists who assess children with language impairments, explaining how and why to implement Dynamic Assessment and giving you a huge range of ready-to-use, practical tools. Where normal assessments simply identify deficits, Dynamic Assessment also identifies the child's potential to learn by allowing for prompts from you, during the assessment, thus far better informing your decisions about appropriate interventions and strategies to help the children you work with. What does this book do? Provides a concise introduction to the principles of Dynamic Assessment to make clear the enormous benefits of applying this approach to the assessment of language; presents a full example of a Dynamic Assessment (the DASS) that has been devised and piloted to demonstrate how the principles are applied; includes all the materials, prompts and scoresheets for the DASS so that you yourself can use this assessment immediately. It also includes numerous templates, generic prompt sheets, score sheets and materials that you can adapt for use in Dynamic Assessments that you devise yourself.

It demonstrates the application of the findings of a Dynamic Assessment to help you plan even more effective intervention programmes. Written by Dr Natalie Hasson, a highly experienced Speech and Language Therapist who leads the field in researching the dynamic assessment of language, and with a foreword by best-selling author team Stephen Parsons and Anna Branagan, this book is the only Dynamic Assessment toolkit of its kind.

Natalie Hasson (Author)