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DHH Resources
Western-DHH Curriculum-Based Spoken Language Assessment Tool
This assessment tool has been developed for use by Specialist Teachers who support students who are d/Deaf and/or Hard of Hearing (d/DHH). The assessment tool includes four sections: Vocabulary, Morphological Awareness, Sentential Syntax, and Discourse. Each of these sections can be downloaded below.
If you have any questions, please contact Rachel Benninger by email at rbraun6@uwo.ca
Vocabulary
This section of the Western-DHH assessment tool assesses a student's curriculum-based vocabulary knowledge. It includes instructions, a vocabulary rating checklist, a vocabulary strategy checklist, a summary form, and a series of vocabulary lists arranged by grade. These vocabulary lists inlcude vocabulary specific to Mathematics, Science and Technology, and English/Language Arts curricula. These vocabulary lists have been compiled based on the Ontario curriculum and are not an exhaustive list of the vocabulary a student might encounter in the classroom.
Morphological Awareness
This section of the Western-DHH assessment tool assesses a student's awareness of, and ability to manipulate, the smallest units of meaning in words. This document includes instructions, a task for adding morphemes (production), a task for removing morphemes (decomposition), and a summary form.
Sentential Syntax
This section of the Western-DHH assessment tool assesses a student's awareness of and ability to combine sentences in order to use more complex syntax. It includes instructions, a summary form, and a task that addresses a variety of sentence combination types.
Discourse
This section of the Western-DHH assessment tool assesses a student's knowledge of and ability to use key elements of oral discourse. This includes instructions, a summary form, and tasks to address skills in the areas of narrative, opinion, and expository language.
Fillable Summary Forms
These summary forms have been made into fillable PDFs, but are otherwise identical to the summary forms included in the documents for each section above. (These forms are also available within each section above).
Western-DHH Spoken Language Intervention Kit/Template
This intervention kit/template was developed to accompany the Spoken Language Assessment Tool, and to support oral language skills in d/Deaf and/or Hard of Hearing (d/DHH) students. It includes activities and materials to target sound-/word-level skills and sentence-/discourse-level skills in order to support d/DHH students with a range of oral language skills. It was designed as a template for educators to populate with information relevant to a student’s learning and current or upcoming classroom curriculum.
If you have any questions, please contact Rachel Benninger by email at rbraun6@uwo.ca
