Eastern Upper Peninsula Intermediate School District 315 Armory Place, P.O. Box 883 Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783 906 632-3373 SLI SPEECH and LANGUAGE REPORT Student’s Name: Referral Date: DOB: CA: Referred by: Report Date: Grade: District: Please Choose District Reason for Referral: School: SUMMARY OF EVALUATION DATA: List of Evaluations: Assessment Name: Date Cognitive: Applicable Health History: Evaluation Date: Hearing Medical Physical: Developmental Problems Source: Educational Implications: Adverse effect on educational performance Yes No Attach classroom teacher’s report Eligibility recommended: Articulation Language Fluency Voice LD Expressive Language Language Not eligible for services Observation of Communication Impairment in LRE (Optional) Date: Specific problem(s) observed: Specific problem(s) to be addressed by TSLI if eligible: Amount & type of service to be recommended: Direct: Indirect: Amount of time: Minutes: Hours: Frequency: Weekly Monthly Parent Input: Behavioral description of child in testing situation: LD Written Page 1 of 5 Student’s Name: SPEECH: Articulation/Phonology: Informal test of articulation: Formal test of articulation: Defective Phonemes: indicate as follows: ---=Omit D=Distortion Enter substitution Consonants – Approximate development age cited (Iowa:Smit 1986) 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 7.0 8.0 9.0 m n G m V F Sh R m p b h d w k Vowels Vowels Vowels as in as in as in v l l z ch zh th ng th(v) Errors are: Consistent Inconsistent Phoneme errors persisting beyond age in which maturation alone might be expected to correct deviation: Processing errors, if any have persisted: STIMULABILITY Intelligibility Easily stimulated: Close approximation: Not stimulated: Estimated: Actual: Oral Motor Functioning: % % Within expectations Problems noted Voice Quality: Within normal limits Strident/harsh/hoarse/breathy/aphonic/hypernasal/hyponasal Low/high in pitch Habitual pitch too low Pitch break Intensity: Inappropriate vocal intensity Please specify: Resonance: Hypernasality (Vowels) Hyponasality Nasal emission (Consonants) Mixed Assimilated nasality – nasality on vowels adjacent to /m, /n/, /ng/: Contributing Factors: Hearing Surgery Medication Vocal abuse Allergies Temporary health problems Duration: Medical Information: Page 2 of 5 Student’s Name: Further Observations: Cough/throat clearing Marked neck muscle activity during phonation Marked upward or downward excursion of the larynx during phonation Fluency: Fluency evaluation: Rhythm of speech interrupted by: prolongations of sounds syllables words blocking interjections repetitions Background Information: Age of onset: Provided by: Parental expectations/concerns: Student’s expectations/concerns: Situations that provoke/increase stuttering: Fluency: - A minimum taped language sample of 5-10 minutes is recommended Stuttering Behavior: Method A Frequency of blocks: less than 3% Duration: less than .6 sec .6 to 4 3-10% 5-15 Method B: Stuttered words per minute: 0-3 4-5 Total words spoken per minute: 111-150 Secondary Characteristics: Verbal Behavior Prolongations Repetitions Whole word Syllable Single phoneme Abnormal rate 11-24% 25% or more 16 sec. or more 6-10 90-109 11+ 70-89 69 or less Non-verbal Behavior Lack of eye contact Tremors Facial grimaces Extraneous body movement Evidence of frustration Change in pitch Glottal fry Revisions Interjections Starters Language – Is there a basic or associated language problem? Yes No If “Yes,” indicated by Oral Motor Functioning: Rate of Speech: Adequate Slow Fast Oral Peripheral Examination – Speech mechanism was: Within normal limits Atypical and adequate/inadequate for speech production Language: Please list tests used for evaluation Page 3 of 5 Student Name: Expressive Language: Within normal limits tense formations; subject-verb agreement; omission of articles; question formations; Below expectancy. Deviations were noted in: sentence length; verb pronoun usage, prepositions; singular-plural; negation, possessives; semantic complexity; syntactic complexity; sequencing description. Use of Oral Language: Within normal limits Below expectancy. Deviations were noted in: Rate of formulating responses; circumlocutions; verbal perseveration; tangentiality; answering questions appropriately; appropriateness of utterances in relation to context; eye contact, ritualistic greeting and closings; topic initiation; topic maintenance; topic closure. Language Sample Analysis: Spontaneous Sample: MLU: Predominant sentence type: Simple Complex Number of utterances: Interrogatory Syntax/Morphology (Structure): Rate by using: X=Problem; 0=Not observed; W=Within normal limits Word order: Pronouns: Prepositions: Demonstrative: Articles: Plurals: Locative: Conjunctions: Possessives: Contractions: Verb tense: Negation: Questions: Adverbs: Comparatives: Errors are: Consistent inconsistent Semantics (Content) 1. Describe vocabulary used: 2. Problems noted: Dysnomia Space Circumlocutions Time Quantity Non-specific words (i.e., frequent use of it) Echolalia Other (Please describe: Fillers/stallers (i.e., un, a-a-a, m-m) Pragmatics (Use): Rate by using: X=Problem; 0=Not observed; W=Within normal limits 1. Situational Use: a. Greetings b. Eye contact c. Requests: Objects Actions Information d. Denials e. Stating information 2. Initiates topic 3. Maintains topic 4. Turn talking 5. Organizing and sequencing ideas 6. Elaboration of ideas 7. Variety of vocabulary 8. Verbal perseveration 9. Appropriateness of utterances to topics/situation Paralinguistic Aspects: Rate by using: : X=Problem; 0=Not observed; W=Within normal limits Prosody: Intelligibility: Fluency: Vocal intensity: Vocal quality: Inflection: Juncture: Summary of Language Sample Analysis: Page 4 of 5 Student’s Name: DIAGNOSTIC IMPRESSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS: SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS: _________________________________________ Speech/Language Pathologist ____________ Date 5/12 SAVED: WORD/LUCY/WEBSITE DOCS/SPEECH-LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT/SPEECH-LANGUAGE DOC. Page 5 of 5