Slingerland Screening Procedures
This class offers an introduction to the Slingerland Screening Procedures, Forms A, B, C, and D for students. These procedures, developed by Beth H. Slingerland, help identify students with specific language disabilities. The sooner these children are identified, the sooner remediation can begin. The tests also aid in identifying students who will benefit from structured multi-sensory instruction and whose current language difficulties may continue beyond periods of development or maturational lag and become persistent specific language disabilities in later grades.
Class content includes an overview of the Science of Reading’s role in developing the Slingerland Screenings and pre- and post-administration best practices. Class participants learn through hands-on experience to administer screenings, evaluate student responses, develop clear plans for student support (remediation, intervention, recommendation for further testing), and how to best present that information to educators, administrators, parents/guardians, and the students themselves.
Participants must locate their own student to screen by the start of this class.
Slingerland Screenings DO NOT provide formal diagnosis of learning disabilities.
Content includes:
* Compare responses on parent and teacher observation forms to identify student behaviors that indicate the need for Slingerland Screening
* Manage the schedule, environment and sequence of the subtests for a full Slingerland Screening
* Score multiple Slingerland Screening tests and complete three levels of analysis:
* * Page 3 Analysis for initial subtest scores
* * Subtest Performance Chart and Comparison reports
* * Full, formal report appropriate for debrief with student, parents, and administrator
* Interpret Slingerland Screening results to:
* * identify a student’s modalities of learning strength and weakness
* * plan remediation and recommend instructional accommodation
* * recommend further, formal testing
13 classroom hours. This workshop is approved for 1 graduate level extension credit through University of San Diego.
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