STUDENT FAVRES

• Functional Communication Tasks
• Ages 12-19
• Administration Time: 50 min (approx.)
• 4 Complex/Integrative/Real Life Tasks
  • Planning and Event
  • Making a Decision
  • Scheduling
  • Building a Case
• Standardized on students with & without brain injuries
• Types of Scoring: Norms available for:
  • Accuracy
  • Time
  • Rationale
  • Reasoning Subskills

The S-FAVRES was carefully constructed with input from speech-language pathologists, adolescents, teachers, and experts in adolescent development and brain injury.

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, humour, 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

 Features of the S-FAVRES

• Functional tasks
• Real life amounts of information (text, discourse, multiple factors)
• Context
• Roles/Perspectives/Points of View
• Multiple Stimuli
• Integrative Functions
• Novel Tasks
• Emotional Content
• Interaction with Examiner