Below is a list of commonly used assessments by category.
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Behavioral Assessment
Behavioral assessments involve gaining information about the child's behavior from a range of people who interact with the child, including teachers, parents, other care givers. Information is gathered in the form of questionnaires, interviews, and rating scales.
Behavior basics
http://www.specialconnections.ku.edu/?q=behavior_plans/functional_behavior_assessment
Functional Behavior Assessment
http://www.educateautism.com/functional-behaviour-assessment.html
Determining the function of behavior
http://www.specialconnections.ku.edu/?q=behavior_plans/functional_behavior_assessment
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-function-of-behavior-3110363
Communication and Language Assessment
American Speech- Language Association guide to assessments
https://www.asha.org/PRPSpecificTopic.aspx?folderid=8589935303§ion=Assessment#Comprehensive_Assessment
Social Skills
Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - fifth edition (CELF-5)- assesses a person’s attention to people, play, vocal development, gesture, and social communication
Social Responsiveness Scale, 2nd Edition (SRS-2) -this measures social, communication, and repetitive/stereotypic behaviors
Autism Social Skills Rating Scale SSRS
Social skills assessments and interventions
Social Language Development Test–Elementary (SLDT-E) - assesses social language expression and comprehension
Sensory Needs
Sensory Profile, Second Edition (SP-2; Dunn, 2014) and the Sensory Processing Measure (SPM; Parham, Ecker, Miller Kuhaneck, Henry, & Glennon,, 2007) are both questionnaires that can be used to assess sensory processing and behaviors across various childhood environments (home and school).
https://bestpracticeautism.blogspot.com/2018/09/sensory-processing-in-autism-assessment.html
References
Dunn, W. (2014). Sensory Profile 2 manual. San Antonio, TX: Pearson.
Parkham, L. D., Ecker, C., Miller Kuhaneck, H., Henry, D. A. and Glennon, T. J. 2007.
The Sensory Processing Measure (SPM): Manual, Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services.
