What tools could be recommended for assessing a student with mental retardation or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who is low verbal?
Generally, practitioners use observational methods and structured procedures to assess the communication abilities and needs of persons with severe disability and ASD. Observations can provide invaluable information about individuals with disabilities as well as their partners and environments. They can be conducted casually (by simply observing interactions with familiar and unfamiliar partners) or more formally (by using checklists of target behaviors or reviewing educational/medical records). Observations may be most useful when examiners generate guiding questions before the observation period. Unfortunately, observations are limited to what happens during a given session or what appears in a written record. That is, a full range of behaviors needed to make judgments and decisions may be observable only through the application of more specific elicitation procedures. Structured procedures include communication sampling, informant assessment, and standardized assessment. Structured
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