Teaching · Speech & Language

What the family sees at home, in one page.

Families know how a child talks at the dinner table, in the car and with cousins. The survey asks plain questions about talking, understanding and playing with others, keeps the family’s own words, and turns the answers into a short summary for the speech-language pathologist.

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The family survey

Fill it in with a family, hand it over on a phone or tablet, or print the blank form. Records use a child’s initials or code. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Speech & Language$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A family survey for each child: fourteen plain questions on talking, understanding and connecting with others, the family’s worries in their own words, when the child talks most and what helps, and how the family wants to hear back, including an interpreter. A summary lists every “not yet” and “sometimes” answer for the speech-language pathologist.
Who it is for
School speech-language pathologists and early childhood or special education staff gathering family input before a screening, an evaluation or a yearly review; parents, guardians and grandparents who fill it in.
Format
Browser form that works on a phone, so a family can fill it in themselves. Several saved surveys; printed with its summary or as a blank paper form; CSV of every survey; export and import a file.
Access
$12 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.
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Drawn for this page. Families see the child in every language the child uses; the survey asks about the language the child uses most at home.

How to use it

  1. Start a survey with the child’s initials or a code. Hand the phone or tablet to the family, or read the questions aloud and tap their answers.
  2. Answer for the language the child uses most at home. “Not sure” is a real answer.
  3. If there is a worry, a short section opens for what it is and the family’s own words.
  4. Note when the child talks most and what helps; both make good starting points for therapy.
  5. Read the summary together, then print it or keep it on the device.

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Why the family’s view matters, and its limits

Family input is part of the picture

IDEA requires an evaluation to draw on several sources, including information the parent provides, and the IEP team must consider the parents’ concerns. A survey like this is one way to gather that information in the family’s words before a meeting, so the meeting starts from what the family has already said.

It is not a checklist with a score

The questions are plain descriptions of everyday communication, written for this page. Answers are not added up, compared with norms or turned into a rating. “Not yet” marks something to ask about, not a delay. A child learning two languages may answer differently in each; the survey asks about the language the child uses most at home and keeps the family’s note on the rest.

Language and privacy

Ask which language the family prefers for school messages and whether an interpreter would help. Records use initials or a code, never a name, and stay in this browser. A completed survey becomes part of the education record once the school keeps it; handle it under FERPA.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.304(b)(1) (evaluation uses information provided by the parent), 300.322 (parent participation), 300.324(a)(1)(ii) (the concerns of the parents).
  2. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Practice Portal: Late Language Emergence; Spoken Language Disorders (asha.org/practice-portal).
  3. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Practice Portal: Collaborating With Interpreters, Transliterators, and Translators; Bilingual Service Delivery.
  4. Paradis, J., Genesee, F., and Crago, M. (2021). Dual Language Development and Disorders (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Brookes.
  5. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.

The example family and child are made up. The survey gathers a family’s observations; it does not screen, test or diagnose, and it holds no state rules. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.