2113V - A Clinical Guide to Researcher-Created Morphological Awareness Assessments

This session will present a review of the empirical uses of experimenter-created morphological awareness assessment tasks found in recent literature. Assessments will be summarized by type of morphemes assessed, type of morphological task employed, intended age ranges, and possible administration modes. A review of important item-level characteristics as well as component morphological skills will be provided as a framework for clinicians to use when selecting morphological assessments. Morphological awareness’ link to reading skills will be emphasized throughout. The goal of the presentation is to provide clinicians with the relevant information from recent morphological awareness assessment literature for them to feel confident in selecting morphological awareness assessments for their own clients.