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Student Self-Rating Scales for Articulation, Phonology, and Fluency

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This week, as I was screening one of my first grade students for his present levels of performance for his upcoming annual review, I realized I didn’t have anything to measure how he felt about his speech.  Sure, I have my progress monitoring tools for phonology and articulation that tell me objectively he has made gains in his speech sounds over the past year, but I realized that I never really stopped to ask him how *he* felt about his progress.

As my student is still fairly young, I knew I needed something with simple visuals, but also with some open ended questions.  Thus, my Student Self-Rating Scales for Articulation, Phonology, and Fluency/Stuttering were inspired!

There are four versions for both artic/phonology and fluency.  There are two pages with smiley face visuals (appropriate for preschool through about 2nd grade) – one is for a student currently enrolled in therapy, and the other is for a student who has not yet begun therapy.  There are also two pages for older students (3rd grade through high school) – again, one for a current student, and the other version for a new student to therapy.  Also included are two pages of teacher rating scales (one for artic/phonology and one for fluency).  There are a total of 10 pages included.

As I filled these out with some of my students this week, I was really quite surprised some of my students’ responses.  My most severe phono student is well aware that people have a difficult time understanding him, but it doesn’t bother him a whole lot when he has to repeat himself.  Another student who has a few sound errors (but I consider to be fairly intelligible) feels much more upset when others don’t understand him.

I plan to use these at the beginning and end of the school year, as well as before any IEP meetings.

I feel like these rating scales have helped me fill in a missing piece to my overall therapy as a school based SLP.  Progress isn’t just measured on percentages and how much better a child can say her sounds this year than last year – it is also about how the child feels about her own progress.

I plan on working on a version for language skills, too, but as language covers so many more areas, it is going to take me a while to tackle them!  ðŸ™‚

Tell me, is this something you feel like you could use?

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    1. Nikki Riggs says

      October 10, 2015 at 4:17 pm

      Yes! I feel especially with older kids who are on the verge of dismissal, that if they don't have a problem with their speech they r less motivated to fix it! This happens constantly in middle school and high school! Even with older elementary!

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      • Katie Z says

        October 7, 2019 at 9:18 pm

        Totally!!!!

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    2. Kelly says

      December 30, 2017 at 6:27 pm

      Do you have anything like this for language? I work with middle school students and this is HUGE.

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      • Natalie Snyders says

        December 30, 2017 at 6:54 pm

        It's on my to do list!

        Reply
    3. Shannon says

      February 26, 2019 at 8:26 pm

      This looks like it would be very helpful!

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