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A Strengths-Based Assessment of
Communication, Advocacy, Resilience, and Education.

Assessment Includes: Assessment Administration Manual (1), Communication Activity Prompts (1), Clinician Rating Form (10), Child Form (10)

We can begin to instill CARE in every exchange, starting with the ways in which we evaluate individuals who stutter.

Inside The Assessment:
What To Expect

The Blank Center CARE™ Model Assessment is a strengths-based assessment comprised of four sections, with each section assessing the child’s knowledge and skills across the four pillars of the Blank Center CARE™ Model: Communication, Advocacy, Resiliency, and Education. The CARE Assessment for School-age Children, intended to be used with children enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade (approximately ages 5-18) or equivalent international or homeschooling equivalent. Assessment activities include free response questions, situational communication activities, ratings of overall as well as situational communication competence, as well as close-ended questionnaires.  
 
Initial purchase of the CARE Assessment includes and Administration Manual, Communication Activity Prompts, Child Forms (10), Clinician Rating Forms (10). The Administration Manual and Communication Activity Prompts are a 1-time purchase only. Additional forms are available separately in increments of 10: Child Forms with Clinician Rating Forms (10 of each), Caregiver Proxy Forms (10), and Teacher Proxy Forms (10).  
 
This holistic assessment tool will provide baseline scores and data within each component of the model, as well as the Total CARE Score, to measure and monitor individual progress and to establish person-centered, strengths-based goals for treatment.

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What Makes the Blank Center CARE Model™ a Distinct Approach to Assessment

How this assessment differs from others

  1. A strength-based assessment used to foster and monitor individual growth across each of the four components of the Blank Center CARE™ Model (Communication, Advocacy, Resiliency, Education)
  2. A comprehensive baseline measure that highlights the individual’s unique strengths to fortify as well as emerging strengths to start building upon right away
  3. A method for gathering qualitative and quantitative data to support recommendations and develop individualized strengths-based treatment plan
  4. Pair with the CARE Manual to support treatment planning and progress monitoring, including determining person-centered functional outcomes, short-term goals, and therapy activities
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Bundle with the CARE Manual: Implement Whole-Person CARE and Strengthen Individuals in Achieving their Communication, Advocacy, Resiliency, and Education Goals

Pair the CARE Assessment with the Blank Center CARE™ Model: Application for School-age Children who Stutter to develop an individualized, strengths-based treatment plan.

In our CARE Manual, you’ll find functional outcomes and short-term goals, sample therapy activities, therapy supplements, resources for families and other supporting stakeholders in the child’s life that directly align with each section of the CARE Assessment.

In implementing person-centered CARE, you will not only be helping to empower individuals who stutter to Dream. Speak. Live.® in your setting, you will also be supporting the Blank Center’s mission to end stigmatization on a global scale.

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