No New Artic Norms!
Hi SLPs! Please see the below message that I received from our Region 10 SLP consultant! Your lead team is here to support you if you need help processing all of this or help discussing with parents! --Natalie
Hi everyone!
We have had
many questions about ‘new ASHA artic norms’…..and there appears to be some
confusion not just in Texas but nationwide on many SLP social media sites. So,
to the best of my understanding, here’s the clarification:
There are NO
NEW ARTIC NORMS!! An article, Children's
Consonant Acquisition in 27 Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Review by McLeod and Crowe on school practice was published in
2018 . In response to queries from the field, The
Informed SLP published a blog post entitled That one time a journal article on speech sounds broke the SLP
internet in December 2018.
An addendum
was added to the blog post with some notes from Dr. Meredith Harold
highlighting the need to examine requirements for school services.
Specifically, data on educational impact and need for specially designed
instruction as well as a link to the article on Evaluation and Eligibility for
Speech-Language Services in Schools
written by Barb Conrad and Marie Ireland a few years ago. Dr. Harold
shared that this specific blog post will receive additional promotion in
February when some ASHA Perspectives articles are published.
As you work
to address questions about eligibility for services related to this article,
please know that the blog post explains clearly to readers that these are not new norms. The newly added
addendum also calls attention to the need for additional data and a link to
guidance on evaluation and eligibility for services in schools.
Many other
state have guidance that includes the need to address additional data sources
such as intelligibility, stimulability, educational impact, and need for
specially designed instruction. Some examples of that state guidance
include:
Colorado
Articulation Rating Scale
Virginia
Comprehensive Assessment System
North
Carolina Assessment of Speech Sound Disorders
Florida
Department of Education Guidance
Intelligibility in Context Scale
Virginia,
uses the Iowa Nebraska norms to avoid reliance on a single specific norm
referenced test or variability when different tests are used and Dr. McCleod
indicated that Iowa Nebraska
Norms remain a
solid resource for American English and include sounds and blends that are
absent from the cross linguistic review.
I hope this
provides the links that will help you clarify/reduce concerns on this topic in
your districts. Let me know if you have any questions….
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