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Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills® (TILLS®) Examiner's Practice Workbook

Author: Nickola Nelson, Elena Plante, Nancy Helm-Estabrooks and Gillian Hotz  

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For use with the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills® (TILLS®) Examiner's Kit, the Examiner's Practice Workbook provides practice material for scoring several subtests, including the Written Expression subtest. One copy of the Practice Workbook is included in the TILLS Examiner's Kit.

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For use with the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills® (TILLS®) Examiner's Kit, the Examiner's Practice Workbook provides practice material for scoring several subtests, including the Written Expression subtest. One copy of the Practice Workbook is included in the TILLS Examiner's Kit.

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For use with the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills® (TILLS®) Examiner's Kit, The Examiner's Practice Workbook provides practice material for scoring several subtests, including the Written Expression subtest. One copy of the Practice Workbook is included in the TILLS Examiner's Kit. The TILLS Practice Workbook is part of the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills® (TILLS®) the groundbreaking assessment professionals need to test listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in students ages 6 - 18, and to assess the role of memory in how students perform. Reliable, valid, and comprehensive, TILLS will help you streamline assessment, monitor progress, and reach your ultimate goal: improving students' communication skills so they can succeed in school.

TILLS is the only test that assesses both spoken and written language and shows how these skills relate to each other. You'll get a meaningful profile of skills for each learner, so you can be sure you understand a student's strengths and needs and aren't overlooking something crucial. Unlike most other tests, TILLS also provides diagnostic accuracy in "age bands" meaningful to the development of language and literacy skills, so you'll have the evidence base you need to determine if test scores reflect typical or impaired performance. And if you're an experienced clinician, you can finish TILLS in just 90 minutes or less—which means you'll spend less time testing and more time helping students and planning interventions.

Here is a link to a video introducing TILLS:

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About the Author


Nickola Wolf Nelson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and former Director of the Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at Western Michigan University. She is author of the book Language and Literacy Disorders: Infancy Through Adolescence, and first author of the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS), as well as editor-in-chief of the journal, Topics in Language Disorders. Dr. Nelson's research and publications focus on curriculum-based language and literacy assessment and intervention.

Elena Plante, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at The University of Arizona in Tucson. She is a fellow both of The University of Arizona's College of Science and of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Her areas of research interest include language learning and assessment practices. She in addition to multiple journal articles on these topics, Dr. Plante is a co-author on the Pediatric Test of Brain Injury and the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills. Dr. Plante has also been using neuroimaging to explore the brain bases of language and cognition for the last 2 decades. She has active national and international collaborations in the areas of neuroimaging, language, and learning.

Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Sc.D., CCC-SLP, Brewer Smith Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.

She was affiliated with the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center and Boston University School of Medicine for 32 years, was a Research Scientist at the National Center for Neurogenic Communication Disorders at The University of Arizona, and a Research Professor at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Helm-Estabrooks is board certified by the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorder (ANCDS). Her awards include American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and ANCDS Honors, and the Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award. She is an ASHA Fellow and has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles, 7 books, 21 chapters, and 6 standardized tests.

Gillian Hotz, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is The Director of the KiDZ Neuroscience Center, Research Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida.

Dr. Hotz is Principal Investigator on a variety of funded research projects for acute care and rehabilitation of children with traumatic brain injury and injury prevention. She has presented at local, national, and international conferences; has published numerous papers on the topic of traumatic brain injury; and is coauthor of the Brief Test of Head Injury (with Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, PRO-ED, 1991). Dr. Hotz is a member of a number of advisory groups, including the Florida Injury Prevention Advisory Council and the Sarah Jane Brain Project/The National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan.

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This "Examinera s Practice Workbook" provides helpful instructions and scoring practice for the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills™ (TILLS™). Section I provides step-by-step practice exercises for each of the 15 TILLS subtests. The exercises provide opportunity to check your understanding of both administration and scoring procedures. Section II reviews how to transform raw scores to standard scores and percentile ranks. It also shows how to use standard scores to calculate composite scores and an Identification Core score for the studenta s age. The Identification Core score can be compared with a cut score to identify language/literacy disorders. Section III focuses on how to obtain the three scores of the Written Expression subtest. It includes a tutorial on grammar and T-unit division and numerous scored examples to show you how to handle challenging issues. As you use the "Practice Workbook, "be sure to have on hand your "TILLS Examinera s Manual, "a blank "Examiner Record Form, "and the" Digital Audio Files "(on USB drive). One section of the "Digital Audio Files "provides sound clips to use with the practice exercises. Completing the exercises in this "Practice Workbook "will help you: Practice establishing basals and ceilingsUnderstand when probes can be usedSee when item answers can reveal a studenta s strengths as well as weaknessesKnow how to handle a studenta s self-corrections Make modifications for students with special needsKnow what to do if a student expresses frustration or declines to do a taskCheck your understanding of counting words, T-units, and word errors in the Written Expression subtestLearn when it can be useful to compare a studenta s responses on one subtest to results on other subtests Keep your "Practice Workbook "as a helpful reminder of administration rules and a quick reference for scoring assistance. Youa ll find it a useful tool for efficient and accurate TILLS administration. About TILLS TEST OF INTEGRATED LANGUAGE AND LITERACY SKILLS (TILLS) is the reliable, valid assessment professionals need to test oral and written language skills in students ages 6 18 years. TILLS is a comprehensive, norm-referenced test that has been standardized for three purposes: To identify language and literacy disordersTo document patterns of relative strengths and weaknessesTo track changes in language and literacy skills over time To achieve these purposes, TILLS is constructed to allow you to derive scores for identifying, tracking, and profiling a studenta s strengths and weaknesses and interpreting the results to support decisions about what to do next. Learn more about TILLS and explore the key benefits. "Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills™ and TILLS™ are trademarks of Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. The contents of TILLS were developed under Grant No. R324A100354 from the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.""

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Product Details

Publisher
Brookes Publishing Co
Published
30th October 2015
Pages
277
ISBN
9781598579130

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