After your Meadowbrook Assessment, these tests may be recommended for targeted program design or used to check progress of the program. 

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Slingerland Pre-Reading Screening Procedures (Kindergarten)

Slingerland Screening for Children with Learning Disabilities (Grades 1-6)

SOI TESTING for basic academic skills  and learning styles  (Grades K- college)

Auditory & Visual Low-Level Function Skills (age 5-75)

Ekwall-Shanker Reading Inventory (grades Primer - 9th grade)

Slingerland Pre-Reading Screening Procedures

This test is to identify children's reading readiness. It is usually preformed at the end of  Kindergarten or before first grade. When MES uses this screening 1) parent request; 2) These tests may be added at our discretion to pinpoint pre-reading abilities. This tests takes approximately 1.5 hours and may be done in groups up to 10.

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Slingerland Screening for Children with Learning Disabilities

When MES uses this screening 1) parent request; 2) These tests may be added at our discretion to to identify specific symbol confusions (written) / sound confusions.

From Slingerland Screening Tests for Identifying Children with Specific Language Disability:

Specific Language Disability as used here refers to children of average to high intelligence whose difficulties in reading, spelling, handwriting, written and sometimes oral expression interfere with academic achievement, often causing complete failure. (p. xxi)

The purpose of screening children is to find those of normal to superior intelligence in need of specific help or preventive instruction and not to overlook reasons for poor performance in the belief the children “could do better if they tried,” or that their difficulties stem from poor behavior or from various other kinds of emotional or environmental problems. (p. 1)

These test take a little over an hour to perform and they may be done with groups.

Form A Grades 1 & 2                              Form B Grades 2 & 3                                      Form C Grades 3 & 4                                      Form D Grades 5 & 6

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Structure of Intellect Testing

 Structure of Intellect (SOI) identifies both strong and weak areas that underlie academic learning.

Brief History: The origins of SOI theory start back during World War II. Candidates for pilot training in the new Army Air Corp were selected by their I.Q. The belief was that if people had a high I.Q., then they could learn how to fly planes. The Army was surprised by the dropout rate from pilot school and hired Dr. Guilford raise the retention and graduation rates of pilots. He started by testing and observing those candidates that did well and then taught those skills to the other candidates. Through his experiences he determined that  Intellect has a structure and by learning skills performance is increased.  Read More.

 If your child or student is bright but struggling in one or more areas SOI will identify those foundational weaknesses and  then  design a personal workbook full of exercises needed to bring their learning ability up to the norm for their age or grade level.

Meadowbrook offers group SOI Testing to schools or organizations and to individuals.

Individual tests can be taken in person or on a computer.

Learning Ability: Form L (Group) K-3rd  OR  Primary Learning Abilities Test (Individual Computer Test)

Advanced Learning Ability: Form CR (GROUP) 4th-College   OR Advanced Learning Abilities Test (Individual Computer Test)

Click on the button to the right for the academic areas the SOI may test for (depending on the type of test)

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Auditory & Visual Low-Level Function Skills

This tests identifies if the brain is correctly processing information about language. In Germany, extensive testing has found an auditory component to dyslexia. This device checks for:

• Visual and auditory order threshold

• Spatial hearing

• Pitch discrimination

• Visual and auditory motor-timing

• Choice reaction time

• Frequency pattern

• Duration pattern

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Ekwall-Shanker Reading Inventory (grades Primer - 9th grade)

We use this inventory to check pre-program and post-program general reading skills. We look for accuracy and comprehension by grade level.

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