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Employability/Life Skills Assessment (ELSA)

Target Audience

• Ages 14-22 y

Features

• Scoring: Paper and pencil
• Description: The ELSA is an informal assessment used to gather information about a student’s or youth employability and life skills. It included 24 areas to be assessed. There is a form for families and a form for transition teams.

Contact/Purchase Information

• OCALI
• Phone: 866-886-2254
• Cost: Free
• Available at SERC Library: No

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Financial Literacy Inventory (FLI) Second Edition

Target Audience

• 7^th-12^th grade, college & young adult

Features

• Online: Yes
• Description: The Financial Literacy Inventory (FLI) measures a person's basic knowledge of money management. This 60-item assessment feeds into five scales:
  • Income and Careers
  • Banking and Budgeting
  • Credit and Debt
  • Saving and Investing
  • Rights and Risks

• The FLI 2^nd Edition helps individuals determine how much they know about effectively managing their money, giving them both individualized scores on each of the scales as well as an overall assessment of their financial literacy.
• The FLI then offers guidance on how to improve an individual's financial literacy and manage money better through specific suggestions and online resources. Finally, the FLI provides a personal finance checklist and goal-setting worksheet for individuals to better plan their financial futures.

Contact/Purchase Information

• Paradigm Education Solutions/JIST
• Phone: 800-228-0810

• Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
• Available at SERC Library: Yes

Functional Assessment of Verbal Reasoning and Executive Strategies- Student Version (S-FAVRES)

Target Audience

• Ages 12-19

Features

• Administration time: Approximately 50 minutes
• Scoring: Norms available for: Accuracy, Time, Rationale, Reasoning Subskills
• Language other than English: Swedish

• Description: The S-FAVRES is based on research evidence that has identified the need for an adolescent measure that:
  • Challenges the cognitive-communication skills that are under development during adolescence
  • Evaluates aspects of complex comprehension (sarcasm, humor, intent, gist, or central theme) discourse, social communication, verbal reasoning, problem solving, meta-cognition, executive functions
  • Examines the interplay between cognitive, communication, and emotional regulation skills in real life, integrative tasks
  • Is sensitive to higher order cognitive-communication deficits that emerge in adolescents
  • Is sensitive to subtle deficits of MTBI
  • Assesses integrative functions or activities in which combined skills or processes are required
  • Includes timed scores to evaluate speed of processing

Contact/Purchase Information

• CCD Publishing
• Phone: 519-766-9120
• Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
• Available at SERC Library: No

Functional Independence Skills Handbook (FISH)

Target Audience

• Individuals of all ages with severe developmental/intellectual disabilities and/or autism

Features

• Administration time: Open-ended
• Scoring: Self-scoring
• Description: The FISH assessment instrument helps determine goals for future educational or developmental training programs. FISH is helpful in evaluating the effectiveness of an educational or rehabilitation program. This manual includes both an assessment of 421 tasks and sample lesson plans organized according to seven domains: adaptive behavior skills, cognitive skills, speech and language skills, affective (emotional) skills, sensorimotor skills, social skills, and vocational skills

Contact/Purchase Information

• Stoelting Company
• Phone: 800-860-9775
• Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
• Available at SERC Library: Yes