Assessing Functional and Pretend Play in Young Children: Foundations for Language, Social-Emotional, and Literacy Development
Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP
Speech language pathologists are to employ the World Health Association’s International Classification of Functioning (ICF) in assessment and intervention. Using the ICF framework, SLPs assess children’s capacity (ability) to perform tasks in structured contexts and their participation (performance) of these skills in naturalistic contexts with others. By assessing play skills and language/social-emotional skills in play, SLPs are able to evaluate the skills children need for interaction and the ways and degree to which children use these skills in naturalistic contexts with others.
ASHA: 0.2 ASHA CEUs, Intermediate Level
CMH: 2.0 hrs
Explain the role of play in social-emotional, language, and literacy development
· Evaluate children’s functional and pretend play skills
· Advocate effectively for play-based assessment
This course must be watched in its entirety. In order to receive the CMH or the CEU certificate, a quiz is required to be completed with 80% success.
Financial— Dr. Westby received an honorarium for this presentation from the Lavi Institute.
Nonfinancial— No relevant nonfinancial relationship
Dr. Westby is a consultant for Bilingual Multicultural Services in Albuquerque, NM and an affiliated professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. She is a fellow of the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), holds Board Certification in Child Language, and has received the Honors of the Association. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on theory of mind, language-literacy relationships, narrative/expository development and facilitation, assessment and facilitation of written language, metacognition/ executive function, and issues in assessment and intervention with culturally/ linguistically diverse populations. She is the developer of the Westby Symbolic Playscale. She has been principal investigator on a number of clinical service, research, and personnel preparation grants. She has a BA in English from Geneva College and an MA and PhD in Speech Pathology from the University of Iowa.
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