SRS Social Responsivenss Scale - SALT

[StarlightMcKenzie]

Anyone done this?

Is it any good? Been sent the parent part from ds' school. Questions are mighty depressing but also a bit erm, predictable i.e. does he take things too literally, does he have difficulty making friends, is he aware of what others are thinking or feeling? etc etc.

I just wonder why the school have sent this particular test as he has a dx of ASD. This appears to be mainly a test of whether he has ASD!

Oh, and the next question is, the parental form comes with a kind of sealed inside bit. (I assume that the key to the scoring is in there but don't know). Should I break the seal and have a look?

I had a questionair from ot that sounded like this one, I found it very hard to fill in. The questions where tick answers but he didn't fit into most of the tick boxes ( preferring to do things in way that weren't a valid response. My form did scream at me ' has your child got autisum ' Unfortunately I could drawn the conclusion that most people I know including me would bring up a lot of red flags

I might be being optimistic but maybe they will use this qnaire as a baseline for tracking effectiveness of their social skills work? I think open the sealed bit, if they didnt want you to open it they shldnt have sent it to you

lol!

I is a psychologist. I like scoring systems. I wanna see one!!!!

I don't like it as a questionnaire tbh. Too stereotypical, too open to interpretation. Dunno how much it costs but don't think it is worth it. Questions like 'does he ever flap his hands?', 'does he prefer routine' etc. can be done imo without a blimmin questionnaire.

The scales in the scoring system are:

Social Awareness, Social Cognition, Social Communication, Social Motivation, Autistic Manerisms and you get a rating for each afaics.

But so what? Are they REALLY going to teach Social Communication separately from Social Motivation if his scores differ on the basis of these 65 questions and regardless of his peers difficulties?

I doubt it.

TLP I don't mind baselines. In fact I LOVE them and lobbied the LA to do some. But once you have them, you don't find new baselines on different tests to do every year right?

You test against the baselines you already have.

Sorry. No idea why I'm so grumpy.

Think it was the 'how to become a SEN Advocate Thread!'

Indie SALT did a similar assessment of ds, things such has coherence, inappropriate initiation, sterotyped language, use of context, non verbal communication, social relations, interests, speech etc, etc.

Apparently 'These cover aspects of communication that are not readily assessed by conventional language assessments'

no worries about any grump, I wasn't at my most eloquent posting on my phone on the bus, I was assuming that any baseline wouldn't be a one off, that the same criteria would be used further down the line but maybe that was an assumption too far.

so- did you open the envelope