Resources for Assessment
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Assessment of Phonological Awareness & Reading (APAR) 🆓🇦🇺
The APAR was designed to assess the Phonological Awareness (PA) and reading skills of adult participants in the project Web Access for Literacy Development in Individuals with Disability, funded through AccessAbility, Department of Communications Information Technology and the Arts.
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Bridge Assessment - Center for Literacy & Disability Studies 🆓🇱🇷
The Bridge is an early literacy and language assessment framework
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A modified Bridge Assessment 🆓🇱🇷
Modified version of the Bridge Assessment adapted by Erin Sheldon.
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Developmental Writing Scale 🆓🇱🇷
The DWS is a 14-point ordinal scale that defines qualitative advances in levels of a learning progression for beginning writing from scribbling to cohesive (linguistically connected) and coherent (on an identifiable topic) paragraph-level writing. Used as a formative and summative assessment, it provides refined developmental levels that allow teachers to measure small amounts of progress.
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The Dynamic AAC Goals Grid 2 DAGG-2 by Tobii Dynavox 🆓🇬🇧
The Dynamic AAC Goals Grid-2 provide a systematic means to assess (and reassess) an individual’s current skills in AAC and to assist partners in developing a comprehensive, long-reaching plan for enhancing the AAC user’s communicative independence.
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Using the Developmental Writing Scale - Jane Farrall 🆓🇦🇺
A guide by Jane Farrell giving advice on the use of the DWS
Baseline Assessment Tool
This is a draft copy of a literacy assessment tool which has been modified and adapted by Erin Sheldon. It provides a baseline for all learners in relation to Reading and Writing.
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