Description
>A video-based informal social assessment tool to examine the pragmatic skills of middle and high school students. Examines the social skills and social communication skills needed to function socially and build relationships. This is an informal (non-standardized) assessment. It should be used as a portion of a social communication assessment within a broader array of formal tests when evaluating the receptive and expressive components of social communication skills for students with autism spectrum disorder mild-to-moderate) or social communication disorder.
This tool provides valuable information for developing baselines, preparing for IEPs, crafting progress notes and updates, and creating goals for the following areas:
1. Basic functions of communication, including greetings, farewells, requests, asking for directions, answering the phone…and more!
2. Conversation skills, including initiating, maintaining, ending, topic appropriateness, oversharing, story retelling…and more!
3. Functions for making emotional connections, (related to making friends, maintaining relationships) including making a promise, supporting a friend, encouraging a friend, expressing empathy, refusing…and more!
4. Understanding and expressing emotions, including sad, mad, angry, proud, worried/concerned, bored, and afraid.
5. Understanding and using paralinguistic and context clues, including sarcasm, recognizing deceit, understanding idioms, intonation, perspective-taking…and more!
The “Response forms” include both check boxes and text boxes. If using Adobe Reader (a free download), you can type directly into the sheets as you administer the informal assessment, or you can print the response forms. Also included is a report template specific to this assessment tool and summary sheets (great for IEP meetings or discussions with parents). Some information in the report auto populates to reduce your report writing time!
The video contains:
•50 video scenarios,
•26:56 long with no ads,
•Is narrated by author,
•Has students identify social mistakes and then demonstrate use of the same skill,
•Includes brief (optional) stretch break,
•Explores social language, paralinguistics and understanding of context clues in setting, and
•Examines both understanding and use of each social communication skill.
This tool was designed to give the examiner a better sense of where the student is struggling in each skill area. Is it not fully understanding the skill? Is it not being able to use the skill? Is it difficulties with understanding and/or using paralinguistics? It will give you a better sense of how to approach intervention.
It is based on ASHA’s social benchmarks.
Check out this blog post on the product.
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