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French PRE-SLAM Video & Materials

In this video, Melissa Farkouh, M.Sc., a speech-language pathologist from Canada, provides a brief tutorial on accessing the newly translated PRE-SLAM materials in French. She also explains how evaluators can effectively use these materials in dynamic assessments, designed for children from preschool to seven years old.

Haitian Creole SLAM and PRE-SLAM Video & Materials

In this video, Olivia Volmar, a student at Teachers College, Columbia University, provides a brief tutorial on how to access the newly translated PRE-SLAM & SLAM materials in Haitian Creole. She additionally provides a description about how evaluators can best used these materials in dynamic assessment. 

The Critical Questions- Early Intervention

Dr. Catherine Crowley developed the critical questions over the course of her clinical practice. The Early Intervention version of these questions are more specific to early intervention evaluations. She has found them to be the most effective and valid pieces of information needed by the evaluator in order to distinguish language difference from disorder, especially in culturally and linguistically diverse populations. In addition, this set of questions includes questions supported by research as being the one of the most accurate measures of language disorder (Restrepo, 1998).

Understanding Assessment: The Critical Questions

Dr. Catherine Crowley developed these questions over the course of her clinical practice. She has found them to be the most effective and valid pieces of information needed by the evaluator in order to distinguish language difference from disorder, especially in culturally and linguistically diverse populations.

Scoring Parameters for all SLAM Sets

Scoring Parameters for all SLAM Sets

This document can be used to quantify the results of the SLAM materials.  SCORING PARAMETERS FOR ALL SLAM SETS: click here SCORING PARAMETERS FOR ALL SLAM SETS IN SPANISH: click here
SLAM Subway Picture

SLAM Subway Picture

This language elicitation card and questions were designed as a tool to be used in assessing language for preschool and elementary school aged children.

SLAM Lost Cellphone Cards

SLAM Lost Cellphone Cards

This set of language elicitation cards and questions was designed as a tool to be used in assessing language for junior high and high school aged children.