Teaching · Speech & Language

Every screening finished, filed and followed up.

Work through each student’s screening from the steps before it to the family being told. Mark parts screened, set the outcome and the form asks for what that outcome needs: a date to screen again, the date it went to the team, or why it could not be completed. Each student’s ring on the list shows how far their screening has got.

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The screening checklist

One checklist per student and date, keyed by initials or a code. Not needed steps are left out of the count. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Speech & Language$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with: A finished checklist for each screening: the steps before it, the parts screened and the language used, the outcome with its follow-up date, and the closing steps, with a count of what is done and a list of what is still open. Across students, the saved list shows each screening’s progress, and the CSV gives one row per student for a caseload report.
Who it is for: School speech-language pathologists and speech-language pathology assistants running fall, spring or individual screenings; special education coordinators tracking screenings across a building.
Format: Browser checklist. Many saved screenings, each with a progress ring on the list; printed one at a time or as a blank paper checklist; CSV with one row per screening; export and import a file.
Access: $5 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. Every student on the list has a ring; the checklist fills it, step by step, until the result is filed and the family told.

How to use it

Start a record for each student with initials or a code and the screening date.
Mark the steps before the screening. Use Not needed for steps that do not apply, so they are left out of the count.
Mark each part screened and the language used.
Set the outcome and fill in what it opens: a date to screen again, the date it went to the team, or why it could not be completed.
Close the record when the family and teacher are told and the result is filed; download the CSV for your caseload report.

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Where screening ends and evaluation begins

A screening is not an evaluation

Under IDEA, screening by a teacher or specialist to decide on instructional strategies is not an evaluation for special education and does not need the consent an evaluation needs. If the screening raises a concern that the student may have a disability, the next step is a referral to the team, and an initial evaluation needs the parent’s written consent. Districts differ on what notice they send families before screening; the checklist asks you to follow yours.

Hearing and language first

A current hearing result and a note of the student’s languages belong on file before the result is set. A hearing loss can look like a speech or language problem, and a concern seen only in a student’s newer language is weak evidence of a disorder. The summary flags both.

Counting fairly

Steps marked Not needed are left out of the count, so a screening that skips a part for a good reason can still reach 100 percent of its steps. Records use a code, never a name, and stay in this browser.

Sources

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.302 (screening for instructional purposes is not evaluation), 300.300(a) (consent for initial evaluation), 300.111 (child find).
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Practice Portal: Speech Sound Disorders; Spoken Language Disorders; Hearing Screening (asha.org/practice-portal).
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Bilingual Service Delivery (Practice Portal).
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (2016). Scope of Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, on screening as a distinct service.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.

The example student is made up. The checklist tracks steps; it does not screen, score or decide anything, and it holds no state rules. Follow your district’s screening procedures. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.