No need for a long explanation, I've been on vacation! I haven't posted in a while, my apologies, but I was bitten by the blog bug today at school during my lesson on interpreting standardized tests. I started my second trimester (I'm getting huge!)at Gov State in January, and I can't stop watching the Sopranos. I can't even stay on topic without talking about the show. I'm watching it RIGHT NOW! My mom and I have started somewhat of a book club but with t.v. watching this series, beginning with season 1. Here he is the cause and solution to all of our problems:
...and I am not referring to Patsy Parisi...OH!
One of my requirements as a fledgling speech-language pathologist (SLP) is to learn how to give a standardized measurement tool, also known as, a test. I have to administer, interpret, and report these tests and it just so happened that I was able to use Sean Healy as one of my test subjects.
I went over to Becky's while they were out of town and assessed Sean using the TOSS-P. I tested Sean on his receptive and expressive language abilities using label identification, category stating, and function identifying. I was in the library today while grading his test and I couldn't help but laugh a few times at his responses. When asked to describe what an announcement was for Sean replied, "doing something". This was question 70 out of 103, so I think he was getting a little restless. At one point, Sean flipped the script and began asking me questions and attempting to grade my responses. He showed me a picture and asked "What's silly?" and then I would have to point to something that I thought was silly. Since, the pictures on the test are pretty straight forward, it was hard to choose. After pointing to what I thought was "silly", Sean would mark on a piece of paper my "score". Hopefully I passed.
I finished scoring his test today, and his age equivalency score is 4 years, 9 months! That means he's 9 months smarter than his age! Bravo Sean!
