I am very excited to be diving into all things language samples today, including why we even want to collect a language sample! And then we'll close out the episode talking about how to actually do this and make it feasible in your school SLP workload.

If you haven't tuned in to the rest of this series, start with Episode 134 where we talk about our general checklist for assessments and evaluations.

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Hey there SLP! Let's continue on the nerd train and continue nerding out about all things assessment.

This week, we are chatting about all things informal assessments.

If you haven't been following the series, we started in Episode 134 talking about our general checklist for assessments and evaluations. And last week we talked about formal assessments so we can evaluate the assessments that we're using and qualifying students appropriately.

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This month, we are kicking off a series about all things assessment! This week, we are continuing our theme and diving into formal assessments. One of the most important things we want to do is interpret the scores correctly. There's very few worse things we can do as an SLP in the schools than qualify a student who doesn't need to be qualified, or vice versa!

In case you missed it, go back and tune in to Episode 134 where we cover the higher level strategies of assessment.

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This month, we are kicking off a series about all things assessment! Today, we'll go through an assessment checklist and I'll share some high level strategies on what you can consider when you dive into assessments and how to make that process easier.

In the following weeks, we'll get into more of the specific areas.

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This summer, we are continuing our blitz called Strategies You Can Use.

If you're feeling stuck or wanting to try some new strategies when targeting some of our common goals, this series is for you!

We are going to talk about all summarizing. Why would we even want to target this and why does it matter? Today you'll learn why this is an important discussion to have with our students and ourselves.

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This summer, we are continuing our blitz called Strategies You Can Use.

If you're feeling stuck or wanting to try some new strategies when targeting some of our common goals, this series is for you!

Today's episode is all about narratives. I've done a lot of research on narrative-based therapy over the years so this one is going to be jam-packed with tons of information you can use to target those goals in therapy.

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This summer, we are continuing our blitz called Strategies You Can Use.

If you're feeling stuck or wanting to try some new strategies when targeting some of our common goals, this series is for you!

Now it's time for some strategies on how to target affixes in therapy. This episode is inspired by Jennifer L. Zoski's article about using morphological strategies to help adolescents decode, spell, and comprehend big words in science.

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This summer, we are continuing our blitz called Strategies You Can Use.

If you're feeling stuck or wanting to try some new strategies when targeting some of our common goals, this series is for you!

This week, we are diving into 3 strategies for vocabulary growth, inspired by an article on semantic networks by Elizabeth B. Hadley that has lots of gems and resources in it.

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This summer, we are continuing our blitz called Strategies You Can Use.

If you're feeling stuck or wanting to try some new strategies when targeting some of our common goals, this series is for you!

This week, we are sharing strategies to target basic concepts.

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Today, we are diving into strategies we can use when targeting syntax goals, so this could be looking at compound and complex sentences, passive voice, and relative clauses.

I highly recommend reviewing Episode 127 if you missed it, as we cover an overall strategy more focused on basic grammar structures, but many of the same principles apply here too.

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