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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.

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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