Question
I am searching for a useful checklist or assessment tool in determining a student's pragmatic use of language. I realize that this may not be a "qualifying" tool for services but we need to describe skills in this area every so often for kids who are "ma
Answer
There is an Assessment of Pragmatic Skills that you can find in Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual published by Singular Publishing Group. I use this with my graduate students and they have found it to be very practical with all populations.
Dr. Mary Anne Nericcio has been a bilingual speech language pathologist for 30 years. She is an Associate Professor at Texas A & M International University in Laredo, Texas. She can be reached atmnericcio@tamiu.edu
Mary Anne Nericcio, Ph.D
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