Author(s): Patricia Hamaguchi, MA, CCC-SLP / Deborah Ross-Swain, EdD, CCC-SLP
Description
Based on current research and designed for today's child, the RESCA-E was developed to provide essential information to professionals and parents about a child's receptive, expressive, and social communication language skills. It targets critical areas of language development which are often included in IEPs and treatment plans but are difficult or impossible to objectively measure with existing tests for the elementary-age population.
The RESCA-E combines standardized tests with informal observation across different settings to give a more complete picture of a child's communication skills.
The RESCA-E has 14 components, organized into three cores. Subtests can be selectively utilized to target specific skill areas. The three cores, their component subtests, and associated supplemental subtests are:
RECEPTIVE Core
Three subtests target receptive language at the word, sentence, and narrative levels:
Receptive Supplemental Subtests
Two supplemental subtests provide more detailed information:
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Core
Three subtests make up the Social Communication Core. These are supplemented by one optional subtest (Elicited Body Language) and an observational scale to provide information about both a child's "testable" social-language knowledge and also his or her observed social behavior in the real world:
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