Assignment #3

Name of Organization: KCC – Speech Department

Name of Program: Summer Language Interaction Program (SLIP)

What are you going to evaluate? Describe program (logic model):
Summer Language Interaction Program (SLIP). The SLIP program is a four-week program that runs four days a week (Monday-Thursday). It has approximately 16 participants between the ages of 4 and 5. The SLIP program strives to improve client`s language and social interaction skills through various group activities that are designed to fit certain weekly themes (i.e. playground/picnic, shopping/fast food, camping, growing). These themes were chosen as they are relevant to a young child’s life, therefore, the child is more likely to remember and use the information that has been learned.

What is the purpose of the evaluation?
The purpose of the evaluation is to determine whether or not the program was effective in increasing the participant’s language and social interaction skills. In learning whether or not the program was effective towards these goals, it will be possible to increase the awareness of this program and perhaps receive more funding for the program in the future. With more funding, KCC will be able to hire more support staff and thereby increase the amount of children that are able to attend the camp each year.

Who should be involved? (Stakeholders)
Organizers of the program (Speech Language Pathologists), Supervisor of speech department, manager of the Kinsmen Children’s Centre, Student Speech Language Pathologists, Support staff, volunteers

Who will use the evaluation? How will they use it?
-Clientele/Parents of clientele will use the evaluation to decide whether or not their children should take part within future SLIP sessions.
-Organizers of SLIP program will use the evaluation to see where improvements are needed within the program and to see what worked well with each child as well as all the children as a group.
-Management at KCC will use this evaluation to assist in funding for future sessions of SLIP.


What questions will the evaluation seek to answer?
1) Did the language skills of participants increase or improve?
a) were improvements seen overall in all or most of the children?
b) what other individual improvements were seen in particular children?
2) Were improvements in participant`s social interaction skills seen?
a) were children able to wait their turn in turn-taking tasks?
b) did children learn the names of other children?

What information do you need to answer the questions?
What I wish to know Indicators – How will I know it?
-Did the language skills of participants imcrease or improve?: Survey's given to all involved in the SLIP program as well as parents of clients will indicate if an improvement was present or not. Interviews with the SLIP staff will also be used in order to receive a more opinionated perspective on the specific aspects of the improvement of the children in the program.
-Were improvements in participants social interaction skills seen?: See above

What evaluation design will you use?
Goal-based evaluation. In using a goal-based evaluation I will be able to determine if the predetermined goals of the SLIP program were met. Did the language and social interaction skills of children in the program increase? In answering this question I will need to collect information regarding how the goals were decided upon, if the timeline of the program was a suitable length to achieve the goals, if the goals need to be altered in the future and if so, how?

Where should information be collected from?
Staff, Clients, Parents/guardians of clients, volunteers

What data collection method(s) will you use?
I will be using surveys and interviews as a data collection method. In using these two methods I hope to achieve a good overall and specific view of the types of improvement seen within the children who took part in SLIP.

Instrumentation: What is needed to record the information?
A survey which will indicate the client`s improvement in the SLIP program. I will also be using short interviews with the people who worked with the children in order to gain an opinionated perspective on the childrens improvement. The short interview will consist of approximately 4 -6 questions regarding each individual childs improvement.