Pearson - Clinical and Talent Assessment - Australia and New Zealand

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With fewer items and age-appropriate modifications, the record forms for ages 7-12 and 13-17 provide deeper insight into the impact of stuttering on a young person than traditional fluency assessment. New data collected from January through June 2010 support the criterion-referenced scores for each form.

The OASES assessment uniquely measures the impact of stuttering on a person’s life—unlike most other stuttering instruments, which focus mainly on the frequency and type of stuttering events. This brief, yet comprehensive self-report is built on a solid theoretical foundation to help you assess the impact of stuttering in multiple life situations. Use this evidence-based tool to support effective intervention.

Users & Applications

• Part of an initial diagnostic evaluation
• Interview tool during intervention
• Collaborative treatment planning tool with your client
• Outcome measure
• Progress monitoring tool to evaluate treatment strategies

Content & Administration

Each question is scored on a Likert scale from 1–5. Responses are totaled into Impact Scores
and Impact Ratings (Mild through Severe) for each of the four sections: 

• General Information
• Your Reactions to Stuttering
• Communication in Daily Situations
• Quality of Life

There also is an overall score.

Features & Benefits

• Provides a quick and easy self-assessment that adds to a comprehensive evaluation
• Enables insight beyond a numerical stuttering severity rating
• Helps you better understand the complexity of a stuttering condition
• Allows you to evaluate the speaker’s perceptions about stuttering behaviors, the speaker’s reactions to stuttering, and difficulties he or she may have in performing daily activities that involve communication
• Offers the first published measure designed to examine functional communication difficulties and quality of life for those who stutter
• Promotes self-awareness for a person who stutters of how the condition affects different areas of his or her life, including school, work, home, and social settings

 Psychometric Information

• Based on the author‘s adaptation of the World Health Organization’s original ICIDH and current ICF frameworks
• Developed using a varied sample of individuals who stutter, ages 7:0–78:11
• Criterion-referenced
• Produces a descriptive Impact Rating
• Scores are not age- or ability-based, since stuttering is not an age- or ability-specific communication disorder

 Q Local Software
Q Local is a flexible, powerful scoring and reporting software tool that allows the clinician to administer and score the OASES as well as more than 30 other Pearson assessments. More about Q Local