Assessment Trends in Speech-Language Pathology

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Do your current formal and informal evaluation tools meet your patients’ clinical needs? Can you find useful assessment products on the market? This podcast will explore trends in assessment tools and processes for time-efficient and effective evaluations. In this episode, we talk with professor and ASHA Fellow Dr. Pamela Smith about assessment trends in speech-language pathology. 

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(02:28) Key Takeaways (03:55) Building a Hypothesis with Medical Record Review (08:52) Preparing to Evaluate (12:24) Recommended Assessments and Current Shortcomings (18:13) Using Outcome Measures and Subtests (21:19) Clinical (Informal) Assessment (28:16) Limitations of Screening Tools (34:42) Evaluation Completion and Billing (39:17) Ethical Considerations (46:35) Impact of the Clinician’s Available Time (50:19) Impact of Ongoing Assessment (56:53) Impact on Value-Based Purchasing (59:53) Patient-Centered Interpretation and Goal Setting (01:05:58) Summary  

The content for this course was created by Pamela A. Smith, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow, FNAP.  

The content for this course was created by Susan Almon-Matangos, MS/CCC-SLP. 

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Resources 

Lists of assessment tools: 

• Free cognitive assessment tools: https://eatspeakthink.com/online-assessment-cognition/
• Aphasia: https://cehs.unl.edu/aac/aphasia-assessment-materials/ 
• Brain injury: https://www.tbims.org/combi/list.html
• Multiple purposes: https://nicespeechlady.com/listing-of-non-nicespeechlady-com-standardized-and-or-norm-referenced-measures/  

Revised “Cookie Theft picture” (Berube et al., 2019): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6437702/