[senco-forum] Assessing processing speed for extra time

Dear Barbara,
      A bugbear of mine too I'm afraid. I don't think there really is anything available to non-EPs. I have been on a number of Communicate-ed courses and the nearest they've come to this is to suggest using the picture naming and digit naming parts of the PHAB . I don't really like doing this as I think it's a bit 'thin' but I do use it to go along with another proved area of slowness e.g. writing speed or silent reading speed - to make a better case for extra time. I wouldn't feel that I could allow extra time solely based on this if all the other areas were within the 'average' range. 
  I am still looking...

Barbara Horsfall Turner <barbht at saqnet.co.uk> wrote:
  We have been using Alcock timed writing to do this and altho it seems to be
acceptable we're not really happy with it

Since the real reason for extra time has to be slow reading or slow
processing ( never mind what it says in the guidelines these are actually
the justifications) and since GCSE is aimed at the average pupil the
reading/processing has to be slower than average 

I've been asked to see if I can find out what others use as a measure of
processing speed ( no doubt I should have followed all the correspondance on
this topic so I apologise but please can you let me know! )

Barbara ht