Dynamic assessment – an alternative to standardized testing that accounts for individuals’ unique cultural and linguistic identities – helps SLPs identify disorder within linguistic variability. Thus, it is critically important to make careful systematic observations of learning during dynamic assessment. In this course – which is broken into six 5-minute blocks – speaker Elizabeth Peña explores what SLPs need to pay attention to during a mediated learning experience session and guides you through identifying key indicators to help you make clinical decisions for an individual on your caseload.

This course is part of the micro course series Integrating Dynamic Assessment Into Your Practice, available as part of the ASHA Learning Pass subscription or for individual purchase in the ASHA Store.

Learning Outcomes 
You will be able to:

• Describe modifiability
• Quantify modifiability in response to a short-term mediated learning experience

What Is a Micro Course? 
Designed to fit your busy schedule, micro courses are 30-minute courses that are broken into six 5-minute blocks, two of which are speaker-led and four of which guide you through practicing a new strategy with a client on your current caseload.

Presenter Information

Elizabeth D. Peña, PhD CCC-SLP, is a professor in the School of Education at University of California Irvine. She is a certified speech-language pathologist and an ASHA Fellow. Her research focuses on two lines of inquiry that address the goal of differentiating language impairment from language difference. These two interrelated areas include dynamic assessment and semantic development in bilinguals leading to test development.

Disclosures:

• Professor at University of California Irvine  
• Financial compensation from ASHA for this presentation

Assessment Type

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

To earn continuing education credit, you must complete the learning assessment by 11:59 p.m. ET on the end date below.

Program History and CE Information

Content origination date: September 10, 2021
End date: February 23, 2027

This course is offered for 0.05 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
Subject code 7030 
Counts toward PD requirement for ASHA certification maintenance for Content Area 2. Read more about professional development requirements for certification maintenance.