Teaching · Speech & Language

Where a student’s communication keeps them out, in their own terms.

Go through ten everyday situations with the student, or with someone who knows them well, and mark whether they take part fully, with effort, or avoid it. Add what gets in the way and what helps. The summary turns the situation they most want to change into a goal about taking part, not only about the skill.

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The participation inventory

One inventory per student per rater. Use initials or a code, never a name. Works on a phone; the example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Speech & Language$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each student, ten situations rated by participation, the barriers and what helps, and the situation that matters most, with a summary that lists what is avoided and frames a goal in the student’s terms.
Who it is for
Speech-language pathologists working with students who stutter, have speech, voice or language differences, use AAC or have hearing loss, and the students and families who rate their own participation.
Format
Browser inventory. Several saved records; printed with the summary or as a blank paper form; CSV with one row per inventory; export and import a file.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Speech & Language toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Speech & Language space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
Drawn for this page. Participation is the point of communication work: being in the circle, not only saying the sounds or words correctly.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and say who is rating.
  2. Go through each situation together, thinking of the last month.
  3. Mark what gets in the way and write down what helps, in the student’s words where you can.
  4. Ask which situation the student most wants to change, and why.
  5. Read the goal line together and write the goal around that situation.

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What the inventory is for

Participation is the point

The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health separates what a person can do from whether they take part in life. A student can say every sound correctly and still avoid every class discussion. This inventory asks about taking part, which is often what matters most to the student and the family.

Goals in the student’s terms

A goal built around a situation the student chose, such as joining a class discussion twice a week with a prepared comment, is easier to care about and easier to see. The organizer frames that starting point; the team writes the goal.

Different raters, different views

Students, families and teachers often see participation differently, and all three views are useful. Make one inventory per rater and compare the printouts. Records use a code, never a name, and stay in this browser.

Sources

  1. World Health Organization (2001). International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Geneva: WHO.
  2. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. ICF framework in the Scope of Practice in Speech-Language Pathology (2016) and Practice Portal: Childhood Fluency Disorders (asha.org).
  3. Yaruss, J. S., and Quesal, R. W. (2004). Stuttering and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: An update. Journal of Communication Disorders, 37(1), 35–52.
  4. Eadie, T. L., et al. (2006). Measuring communicative participation: A review of self-report instruments in speech-language pathology. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 15(4), 307–320 (background; no items are used here).
  5. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.

The example student is made up. The inventory records how one person rates participation; it has no norms, gives no score and does not assess or diagnose. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.