IMPLEMENTING AND MONITORING SLPI USE

This section includes factors, principles, and sample and model philosophy, policy, procedures, and annual report documents for implementing and monitoring SLPI use. The importance of monitoring consistency of SLPI ratings by SLPI Team members to help ensure fairness of SLPI results and to assist in planning in-service training for SLPI Team members is also discussed. In addition, two studies are described, one to investigate the time required by NTID faculty and professional staff to achieve SLPI rating skill levels and the other a study to establish appropriate sign language communication skill level expectations for university students. Also, this section includes a document that provides suggestions and examples for connecting ASL instruction to SLPI results.

Both PDF and Word versions of several documents are included in this section. The PDF versions maintain the appropriate format for documents, but they cannot be edited. The Word versions can be edited to fit the needs of each program, but appropriate format may not be maintained when posted in a website. Therefore, programs can refer to the PDF versions of these documents to assist them with the proper format when they make changes to the Word versions to fit their application of the SLPI.