Evals coming up and you’re still digging through folders looking for the right screener? This episode is for you.
In this episode, I’m walking you through the SLP Now Assessment Binder, a 70-page digital resource that lives right on your iPad. No printing. No hunting. Just everything you need, right at your fingertips.
I’ll show you how this binder covers articulation, phonology, and grade-level assessments across multiple skill areas. And when you pair it with SLP Now’s built-in assessment tools, you can collect data, generate goal recommendations, and auto-populate your present levels statement all in one place.
In this episode:
- What the Assessment Binder includes and how to access it
- How to use the binder alongside the SLP Now assessment tool
- How the platform auto-generates present levels summaries
- How to create goals directly from assessment data
- How to get your full binder inside the membership
Resources mentioned:
- Free Trial: slpnow.com/pod
Stop Scrambling for Screeners: How the SLP Assessment Binder Makes Evaluations Easier
There’s a specific kind of stress that hits when you realize an eval is due and you don’t quite have what you need.
You open Drive. Nothing.
You check your desktop folder. Maybe.
You flip through a physical binder that you’re pretty sure has the right screener somewhere.
And now fifteen minutes have passed and you haven’t even seen the student yet.
If that sounds familiar, this post is for you.
I built the SLP Now Assessment Binder to eliminate exactly that kind of scrambling. It’s a 70-page digital resource designed to give you fast, organized access to the assessments you need, without hunting, printing, or piecing things together at the last minute.
Here’s what it includes, how it works, and how it fits into a complete assessment workflow.
What the Assessment Binder Covers
The binder is organized across three main areas: articulation, phonology, and grade-level language assessments.
The articulation assessment walks you through the major speech sounds so you can collect baseline data quickly and consistently.
The phonology assessment gives you a structured way to look at patterns.
And the grade-level assessments are organized by curriculum expectations so they actually reflect what students are expected to know at each grade.
Within the grade-level section, you can choose the skill areas that make the most sense for each student. That includes vocabulary, grammar, narratives, and more. You’re not locked into a one-size-fits-all format. You choose what’s relevant and go from there.
One of my favorite things about it? No printing. You save the binder directly to your iPad, pull it up whenever you need it, and the student gets to see the visuals on your screen. It lives right on your home screen so there’s zero delay between “I need to run a screener” and actually running it.
How It Works Inside SLP Now
The binder is useful on its own, but it becomes really powerful when you pair it with the assessment tools already built into the SLP Now platform.
Here’s what the workflow looks like in practice.
You create a student inside SLP Now, click into their profile, and navigate to the Assessment tab.
From there, you choose whether you’re running an articulation assessment, a phonology assessment, or a grade-level language assessment. The binder gives your student the visuals they need while you score their accuracy directly in the platform.
As you enter data, SLP Now does something that used to take me a lot of time to do manually. It automatically generates a summary of the assessment results. That summary includes the student’s strengths, emerging areas, and areas of need, and it’s written in a format you can copy and paste straight into your present levels statement.
No drafting from scratch. No trying to remember what a student said in the session. The summary is right there, ready to go.
From Assessment Data to Goals in One Connected Workflow
Here’s where the time savings really add up.
After you complete an assessment, SLP Now gives you goal recommendations based on how the student performed. Let’s say a student scores 0% accuracy on /k/ and /g/. The platform identifies those as potential goal areas.
From there, you can run a baseline probe directly in SLP Now. You open the probe for /k/ in word position and get a more specific data point. SLP Now can automatically create the goal and fill in that baseline data for you.
You repeat the process for each recommended goal area. What used to feel like four or five separate steps, collecting data, writing present levels, identifying goals, finding baseline numbers, setting up the IEP, now flows as one connected process.
That kind of efficiency matters when you have a full caseload and evaluation deadlines that don’t slow down for anyone.
Who This Is Really For
The Assessment Binder was designed with a very specific SLP in mind.
It’s for the SLP who has a new student on the schedule and needs to run a screener fast.
It’s for the SLP who is updating an IEP and wants present levels that actually reflect what the student can do.
It’s for the SLP who is tired of recreating baseline documentation from scratch every single time.
You don’t need to learn a complicated new system to use this. If you can save a PDF to your iPad and click through a few tabs in SLP Now, you’re ready.
This is not a tool that requires hours of setup or a full onboarding session. It’s meant to be picked up and used immediately, even on a busy Tuesday when a re-eval just got moved up by two days.
Getting Access to Your Assessment Binder
The Assessment Binder is available as a bonus inside the SLP Now membership.
To get started, head to slpnow.com/pod and sign up for a free trial. Once you’re in, set up your first student, run through an assessment using the built-in tools, and send us a message inside the membership to let us know how it went. We’d love to send you the full 70-page binder to use for all your future assessments!
Think about the last time you had an eval come up and spent more time finding resources than actually assessing. That’s the thing this binder is designed to fix.
You should be spending your time with students, not searching for screeners. This is one tool that makes that actually possible.
Ready to try it? Start your free trial at slpnow.com/pod.
Transcript
Hello there and welcome back to the SLP Now podcast. I am excited to be kicking off a new mini series throughout the rest of the month. We are going to be sharing some of our favorite resources, and first up is our Assessment Binder. So this is an incredible way for SLPs who are feeling overwhelmed and who don't quite have time to learn a new tool and who just need quick instant access to some good resources.
This is for the SLPs who have a new student, an evaluation is coming up, a re-eval is due tomorrow,and you're digging through your folders trying to find a good screener. And this type of scrambling is what this Assessment Binder is meant to eliminate.
So what this is is a 70 page digital resource that you can save straight to your iPad. And I love keeping these on my home screen. I'll do a quick little, tutorial on my Instagram about how to actually save a PDF to your home screen so that it's so, so easy to access. but this binder includes resources.
and if you're watching on YouTube or. Spotify, we'll upload the video there. You can kind of see what this looks like. But we have assessments for articulation and phonology as well as grade level assessments.
We have the articulation assessment and it'll help you go through the different speech sounds and get that baseline data. The same for Phonology. And then we have the grade level assessments and they will vary based on the grade level curriculum expectations.
We'll have assessments for different sub areas, so you can choose kinda what makes the most sense for you. So you have describing and grammar and narratives. We go into more advanced vocabulary. This is just a little preview of what that looks like.
This is a great way to get some baseline data, in terms of the curriculum based standards.
By using this assessment, you don't have to do any printing. You would just access the binder, show this to your students, and, inside SLP Now we have the assessments built in there. Let's say I have a screener coming up. I add Harry Potter and then I click into his profile.
I can go to the Assessment tab and click Collect New Assessment and we can do our articulation assessment or we can go into any of the grade level assessments as well. I have the visuals on my iPad, but then I can score his accuracy here. So I am automatically getting this data and I can make notes or make corrections, and do whatever I need to do.
Once I enter this data, I can view the recommendations. This is based on how the student responds. This will help you with generating goals, and it also makes a summary of the assessment so you can literally paste this into your present levels.
On a recent curriculum based measure, Harry Potter demonstrated the following strengths. And it'll list the skills that the student demonstrated strengths in. And it'll list emerging strengths too. And then it'll list the needs.
If you view the recommendations after that assessment, it will also give you access to baseline assessments. So if you complete your articulation assessment and the student scores, 0% accuracy on K and G, that might be a worthwhile goal. And we want to get a baseline.
So I might open up the probe for /k/ in word position and get a little bit more data to show me how the student is doing. So let's say, they're getting 0% accuracy, then I can hit Done, and I can create that as a goal and it'll automatically fill in all of that baseline data for me. And then I can repeat that with all of the goals that are being recommended.
So this is a really cool way to streamline your assessments. Whether you're updating an IEP or doing an eval or a reval, this is a good way to populate a really strong present levels statement that's pulling in curriculum-based assessments to Outline how students are doing. It can also help you with that goal creation process and just having access to the binder without having to dig for visuals or assessments.
Just having everything right at your fingertips. The students have access to the visuals that they need. It makes this process really easy and seamless. It makes your job a whole lot easier. So this binder is available as a bonus in SLP Now.
If you go to SLP now.com/pod, you can sign up for a free trial. If you create a student and start that assessment process, you can download the visuals for a specific assessment. But having the binder definitely makes it easier, so go set up your first student, administer that assessment, and then send us a message in the membership. Let us know how your first assessment went, and then we'd love to send you the full binder to use for all of your future assessments. That's a wrap on today's episode, and I'm excited to continue the series throughout the month.
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