The ABCs of Assessment: Components of Language & Literacy Evaluation with Britney Morrish

In this Literacy Connect podcourse, we interview Britney Morrish, founder of the Language and Literacy Clinic of Manitoba, about “The ABCs of Assessment” for language and literacy evaluations, including dyslexia.Britnney discusses concerns that schools identify only about 18% of students with developmental language disorder due to limited systematic language screening, contrasts balanced literacy/3-cueing with structured literacy, and reviews using multiple tools (favoring TILLS over CELF for sensitivity/specificity). She describes a quadrant model differentiating dyslexia and DLD (often co-occurring), accommodations like audiobooks and text-to-speech/speech-to-text, and integrating assessment data into intervention using diagnostic screeners, UFLI scope and sequence, and interleaved practice.