Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL-3)

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Ages: 3-0 through 6-11
Testing Time: 20-30 minutes
Administration: Individual
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DIAL-3 offers a positive, nonthreatening environment in which children complete fun, age-appropriate tasks using bright, appealing, child-friendly materials. Tasks are presented one at a time using a dial, manipulatives, or other materials.
The DIAL-3 provides scores for Motor, Language, and Concepts, plus an overall composite and behavioral observation cutoffs. The DIAL-3 also uses a Parent Questionnaire to assess Self-Help and Social Development.

• Motor Area: Gross Motor items include catching, jumping, hopping, and skipping. Fine Motor items include building with blocks, cutting, copying shapes and letters, name writing, and the popular finger-touching task.
• Language Area: Items include answering simple personal questions, articulation, naming or identifying objects and actions, plus phonemic awareness tasks.
• Concept Area: Items include pointing to named body parts, naming or identifying colors, rote counting, counting blocks, and sorting shapes.
• Self-Help Development
• Social Development
• An optional Parent-Child Activity Form suggests general activities parents can use to enhance their child’s development in motor, concepts, language, self-help, and social skills.
• An exciting new feature of the DIAL-3 is the Speed DIAL, a brief screener that can be given in 5 minutes per area.

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COMPLETE DIAL-3 KIT includes: Examiner’s Manual, 50 Record Forms (English), 1 Record Form (Spanish), 50 Cutting Cards, 50 Parent Questionnaires (English), manipulatives, dials, Operator’s Handbooks in English and Spanish for Motor, Concepts, and Language Areas plus the Speed DIAL and Training Packet. (1998)

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