Some of the Assessments and Tests we use are
listed below. Please check back often as we continue to provide you
with individual test and assessment information.
| "Our Standard Battery is composed of the checklists, questionnaires,
and many tests infrequently used in determining LD through a "discrepancy
formula method".
~Denton M. Kurtz, M. Ed., LSP, N.C.S.P., LMHC, N.C.C.
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Beery-Bukterica Developmental
Test of Visual-Motor Integration
Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt
Test
The test consists of cards
and is designed to assess perceptual maturation and neurological impairment.
Bracken Basic Concepts
Scale -Revised
Test the basic concepts
of children ages 2 1/2 to 8 with this revised version of one of the most
trusted resources in testing basic concepts. The BBCS-R assesses a child's
receptive knowledge of 301 basic concepts in 11 conceptual categories.
Childrens Memory Scales
Clinical Evaluation of
Language Fundamentals - Third Edition
This assessment identifies
the nature and degree of language disabilities in the language areas of
processing, production, and speech sounds.
Comprehensive Test of
Phonological Processing (CTOPP)
The CTOPP assesses phonological
awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming. CTOPP was developed to
aid in the identification of individuals from kindergarten through college
who may profit from instructional activities to improve their phonological
skills. These formulational skills are necessary for accurate and
fluent reading.
Davis Perceptual Ability
Assessment (DPAA)
Detroit Tests of Learning
Aptitudes -Verbal Absurdities Subtest
The Detroit Tests of Learning
Aptitude is a norm-referenced test used to measure general intelligence
and discrete ability areas. DTLA Verbal Absurditites subtest is individually
administered to help determine listening comprehension and relational thinking
capabilities.
Gibson Cognitive Test
Battery
A screening instrument that helps understand breakdowns
in mental porcessing. From the makers of the PACE and APP programs.
Goodenough Draw a Man
(original)
A nonverbal test of cognitive
ability. The scoring system was devised to be as objective as possible.
Examinees are asked to draw one picture of a whole man. May be useful
as a nonverbal measure of ability for persons with no known handicap or
those who are hearing impaired, language impaired, physically handicapped,
and mentally handicapped.
Gray Oral Reading Test
-3rd Edition
Consists of two alternate,
equivalent forms, each containing 13 increasingly difficult passages. Each
passage is followed by 5 comprehension questions. The test yields information
about oral reading rate and accuracy, oral reading comprehension, total
oral reading ability, and oral reading miscues. The test has four purposes:
to help identify students significantly below their peers in oral reading
proficiency, to help determine particular kinds of reading strengths and
weaknesses, to document student progress as a result of intervention, and
to use in research studies. Presently it is the best measure of short-term
memory for what has been read and for reading comprehension.
Human Figure Drawing (Koppitz
)
The Human Figure Drawing
Test (HFDT) is used as a quantitative technique to assess features of human
figure drawings as indicators of cognitive or mental impairment. HFDT is
designed to enhance the projective-analytic aspect of human figure drawing
analysis. The test can be used with persons over 15 years of age in an
individual administration. HFDT yields four scores: impairment score, distortion
score, simplification score, and organic factors score.
Imagery Rating for Receptive
and Expressive Language
Irlen Reading Perceptual
Scale
Screening mesure for Scotopic Sensitivity Irlen Syndrome.
This instrument is the first step in obtaining Irlen Filters.
Kaufman Test of Educational
Achievement
Lindamood® Auditory
Conceptualization Test
Lindamood® Sound to
Symbol Test
An informal measure of 32 of the 44 sounds and a person's
knowledge if the letter or letters which represent them. This test
has not been published, but during Denton Kurtz's training at the Lindamood-Bell
Learning Processes Centerä in the summer
of 1990, Patricia Lindamood®,
the author of the Auditory Discrimination in Depthä
program and of the Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Testä
gave her permission for using this test whenever it could help in diagnosing
sound to symbol difficulties.
Melvin Smith Receptive-Expressive
Observation
Nelson-Denny Reading Test
NEPSY - A Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Screen
Peabody Picture Vocabulary
Test -Revised
Peabody Picture Vocabulary
Test -Third Edition
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third Edition (PPVT-III)
is an individually administered, untimed, norm-referenced, wide-range test
available in two parallel forms. Each form contains 4 training items and
204 test items. Each item consists of four black and white illustrations.
The test taker selects the picture that best represents the meaning of
a stimulus word presented orally. The test is designed for persons 2 1/2
to 90+ years. It serves as an achievement test of receptive (hearing) vocabulary
for standard English, and as a screening test of verbal ability.
Rapid Automatized Naming
(Denckla ) Sentence Completion
Stanford-Binet Intelligence
Scale - 4th Edition
Test of Visual- Perceptual
Skills Token (DiSimoni)
Test of Word Reading Efficiency
Test of Written Spelling
-Third Edition
Test of Written Spelling
- Fourth Edition
Utah Test of Language
Development -Third Edition
Watson Critical Thinking
Wechsler Individual Achievement
Test
Wechsler Intelligence
Scale for Children - Third Edition
Wechsler Adult Intelligence
Scale - Third Edition
Wide Range Achievement
Test-3 (Blue & Tan)
Woodcock- Johnson -Third
Edition - Tests of Achievement
Woodcock-Johnson - Third
Edition - Tests of Cognitive Ability
Woodcock Reading Mastery
Test - Revised
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