started working on it -- SLOWLY. The Content I started by writing the profile the way I wanted it; touching on the major areas and skipping the not so major areas that contributed to the length of the screener I was currently using. I fleshed out things I wished I could speak to better, like segmenting consonant clusters. I spent quite a bit of time (months) choosing words that target a variety sounds and word lengths, as appropriate, and aren't too similar to other sounds/words in the same subtest. I took time to organize the profile items into a more or less developmental progress, but by overriding type, and decided not to create a criterion score. This was so that there's no worry of false positives/negatives and so that sections of the profile can be skipped as an educator sees fit depending on age and reassessment status. There's nothing worse than feeling obliged to administered several subtests you know the child can/can't do (or shouldn't be able to yet do) just to get a criterion score. Portion of pen and paper test version of the Pro-PA I then put the whole thing into a pen and paper screen and passed it out to several of my friends globally as well as my own colleagues, to test it out on real kids and get feedback on items that failed consistently or anything that didn't work. Then I spent several months refining the screen. I should note here that I didn't go