Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Language Assessment for Children with Language-related Special Education Needs
Project Team
Diane Williams, Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Carol Miller, Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Project Funding
SSRI Level 2
This innovative project will document how spoken and written language difficulties are manifested in the lived experiences of people with neurodevelopmental disabilities, their families, and their service providers. Our long-term goal is to create an assessment procedure that is relevant, actionable, and strengths-based. In order to create this rigorous, evidence-based assessment, we must understand what stakeholders need to make the assessment process meaningful and useful. We will use an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design. First, we will conduct interviews (n = 16) with key stakeholder groups. The results of the interviews will be used to build a survey to collect data from a larger sample of participants (n ~ 100) representing the same groups. The findings of the proposed project will be used in the preparation of a proposal for external funding to create and validate a quantitative assessment.