The Well Screening® Starter Kit, Research Edition

Today’s schools have been tasked with identifying risk for learning disabilities before children have a chance to fail—and the earlier identification starts, the better. Now exclusively distributed by Brookes, the Well Screening® tool is your quick, reliable, and comprehensive way to identify kindergarten students (ages 4–6) who are at risk for learning disabilities, including developmental language disorders, dyslexia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyscalculia, and speech sound disorders. With just one 20-minute screener, speech-language pathologists (SLPs), special and general educators, and school psychologists can examine student performance in multiple skill areas that predict their future success in school.

BENEFITS

• Identifies at-risk students early, so that further evaluation and intervention can be provided as soon as possible.
• Covers areas missed by other screeners—looks at many domains that research identifies as important for school success.
• Pinpoints specific strengths and weaknesses in areas that matter most for academic success.
• Fun and engaging, with animated characters that kids love to interact with.
• Easy for adults to administer and score.
• Digital-only format that can also be delivered via Zoom or another video interface.
• Backed by more than 30 years of clinical experience and drawn from multiple specialized fields: speech-language pathology, education, psychology, and child development.
• Great for monitoring—can be used to follow the child’s progress in the fall, winter, and spring of the kindergarten year.

HOW IT WORKS
An engaging online screener with an animated, game-like interface that children love, Well Screening is a more in-depth tool for use after a universal screening questionnaire. It includes 10 subtests that examine skills in the following key domains:

• receptive language
• expressive language
• social communication
• early literacy
• reading
• attention
• math calculation
• speech sound production
• motor skills

Administered on a computer or tablet, Well Screening is completed by the student, who responds to prompts from animated characters. (Select subtests require an adult helper to indicate the student’s responses on a separate device. Be sure to review the Technical Requirements before getting started.) Once the screening is complete, Well Screening automatically generates a detailed learning profile of the child’s skills and areas of need, with scaled scores and percentile ranks included to help guide instruction for targeted areas. If the student performs below expectations on Well Screening, your team should initiate monitoring and enrichment in the identified areas (fun activities, games, and other resources are provided for each domain). If the child performs below expectations on three or more subtests, further evaluation is recommended.

(To learn more about the screener, visit the Well Screening website and download this visual How It Works guide.)

AT A GLANCE

USED FOR
Identifying prekindergarten and kindergarten children at risk for speech, language, and learning disorders.

AGE RANGE
4:5 to 6:11

DOMAINS EVALUATED
Receptive language, expressive language, social communication, early literacy, reading, attention, math calculation, speech sound production, motor skills

ADMINISTERED BY
Any educator or professional in a school or clinical setting. The Speech Sound Production Subtest, which is a supplementary component and does not have to be administered to get comprehensive results, must be completed by an SLP or other communication professional.

TIME COMMITMENT
About 20 minutes

TRAINING
No formal training is required to administer the Well Screening. The manual and online instruction video provide directions, and a how-to webinar will provide more help for those who need it.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED
Ready to get started with Well Screening? Purchase the Well Screening Starter Kit, which includes an ebook manual and 25 screening codes (you’ll use one code per screening). After you use up your initial screening codes, you can purchase supplementary codes for future screenings.