Pearson - Clinical and Talent Assessment - Australia and New Zealand

When early intervening is critical, PAL-II Reading and Writing guides you to targeted, research-based interventions based on the student’s test results from a brief customisable assessment.

With PAL-II Reading and Writing you can:

• Screen students to identify those at risk for reading and writing problems

• Diagnose reading and writing disabilities by evaluating the nature of the related processing problem

• Monitor students progress through early intervention and prevention programs

The PAL-II Reading and Writing measures the cognitive or neurodevelopmental processes that may contribute to student’s under achievement in reading or writing.

• Orthographic skills

• Phonological skills

• Rapid automatic naming

• Phonological decoding

Expanded Clinical Utility

• New working memory measures sensitive to reading decoding, reading comprehension and writing problems

• Evaluates 3 linguistic domains relevant to learning how to read: Phonology, Orthography and Morphology

• Assess both productivity and quality within the writing tasks

User Guide CD helps you identify the appropriate subtest to administer plus:

• Explains the importance and construct measured by each subtest and how each affects the skill being measured

• Guides score interpretation

• Points the practitioner to research-based interventions or lessons to improve student performance

• Offers easy access to technical information such as development of the test, reliability and validity studies

Take the guess work out of math interventions