Virtual Workshop: Foundations of TILLS

Master the fundamentals of using the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS®)—the groundbreaking assessment for testing oral and written language skills in students ages 6–18 and differentially diagnosing DLD and dyslexia.

If you haven’t had formal TILLS training, this six-hour virtual workshop is the perfect chance to learn from an expert: Michele Anderson, Ph.D., TILLS Consultant/Trainer and research team member. In this hands-on, single-day training, Dr. Anderson will address key questions around successful use of TILLS and get you fully prepared to use TILLS for its three intended purposes:

• Differentially diagnosing developmental language disorder (DLD), dyslexia, or mixed profiles
• Providing a profile of a student’s relative strengths and weaknesses
• Tracking change over time

Who Should Attend?

Equally useful for TILLS novices or users who want a refresher, this training is for in-service SLPs, special educators, school psychologists, and reading and literacy instructors working with school-age students with language and/or literacy learning difficulties. Multidisciplinary school teams are encouraged to attend.

What You’ll Learn

You’ll come away ready to:

• Use the Student Language Scale (SLS)—included with the TILLS Examiner’s Kit—to screen for language/literacy disorders and plan for assessment
• Administer and score each of the 15 TILLS subtests accurately and efficiently
• Save time, streamline scoring, and reduce errors with the TILLS Easy-Score
• Successfully interpret what TILLS results mean and how to use them in practice
• Accurately distinguish dyslexia, DLD, and mixed profiles
• Develop clear and actionable profiles of students’ language/literacy strengths and weaknesses, including the profile associated with dyslexia
• Use the TILLS report writing template to decrease the time spent on assessment and report writing

Each attendee will receive a digital course workbook to complete activities, reference key information, and collect notes.

Certificates of attendance will be provided to attendees of the live workshop. The recording will be available to attendees for four weeks after
the workshop.