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Literacy Assessment Instruments and More FYI Standardized SLP Testing Instruments List (https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/speech-pathology-assessments) Assessment Resource Age Description/ Contents Screen concepts of color, letters/sounds, Bracken Basic Concept Scale: numbers/counting, size, shape, direction/position, 3 to 6 years Expressive (BBCS:E) self/social awareness, texture/materials, quality, and time/sequencing. Evaluate the acquisition of basic concepts of a child, Bracken Basic Concept Scale: which is strongly related to cognitive and language 3 to 6 years Receptive development as well as early childhood academic achievement. Pre-school to early Subtests include basic concepts, sentence and word CELF-P Clinical Evaluation of elementary aged structure, formulating labels, recalling meaning, and Language Fundamentals-Preschool children linguistic concepts. Evaluates a broad range of language skills such as CELF-4 Spanish Clinical Evaluation 6 to 21 years linguistic concepts, formulating sentences, following of Language Fundamentals-4 directions, and listening to paragraphs. Evaluates a broad range of language skills such as CELF-4 Clinical Evaluation of recalling and formulating sentences, word classes, 5 to 21 years Language Fundamentals-4 word definitions, understanding spoken paragraphs, semantic relationships, etc. The new CELF-5 is a comprehensive battery of tests that provides you with a streamlined, flexible CELF-5 Clinical Evaluation of 5 to 22 years approach to language assessment. It now offers a Language Fundamentals-5 more robust assessment of pragmatics using observations and interactive activities. CELF-5 Clinical Evaluation of Quick, reliable, and easy to use;now includes a Language Fundamentals Screening 5 to 22 years pragmatics screening. Test-5 Parent or caregiver rating scale for speech, syntax, Children's Communication Checklist- 4 to 16 years semantics, coherence, initiation, scripted language, 2 (U.S. Edition) context, and nonverbal communication. Tests various language performance in syntax, Communication Abilities Diagnostic 3 to 9 years semantics and pragmatics during story, game, and Test (CADeT) (Johnson) conversational situations. Comprehensive Assessment of 3 to 21 years Assesses language processing skills and knowledge. Spoken Language (CASL) Comprehensive Receptive & Measures both receptive and expressive vocabulary Expressive Vocabulary Test (CREVT) 4 to 18 years using common standardization for both areas. (Wallace and Hammill) Criterion Referenced Inventory of Extension testing in the areas of semantics, 4 to 13 years Language (Wiig) pragmatics, morphology, and syntax. Screens phonological awareness and flexibility; sign Emerging Literacy Language 4.5 to 9 years and symbol recognition and interpretation; memory, Assessment (ELLA) retrieval and automaticity. Consists of 21 informal inventories encompassing Evaluating Communicative 9 to 17 years language processing, metalinguistics, and functional Competence-Revised Ed. (Simon) use of language. Expressive Vocabulary Test, 2nd Measures expressive vocabulary and word retrieval 2.5 to 90 years edition (EVT) (Williams) in standard English. Facilitates compilation of skill level information from Functional Communication 3 years to a variety of areas such as attentiveness, sensory/motor Profile (Kleiman) adulthood issues, speech, fluency, voice, and pragmatics/social skills. Measures articulation of consonant sounds, determine types of misarticulation, and compare Goldman-Fristoe 2 2 to 21 years individual performance to national, gender- differentiated norms. Language Processing Test- Uses tasks for association, categorization, similarities Revised (LPT-R) (Richard and 5 to 11 years and differences, multiple meanings, and attributes. Hanner) Subtests require students to listen for a purpose such The Listening Comprehension Test 12 to 17 years as main area, details, reasoning, vocabulary and (Adolescents) semantics, and understanding messages. Assesses listening through natural classroom The Listening Comprehension Test 2 6 to 11 years situations rather than evaluating listening through (Elementary) simple repetition or discrimination subtests. MacArthur-Bates Communication Three inventories to probe parent report on gestures, 3-37 months Development Inventories (1-3) words, and sentence use. Receptive/expressive evaluation of the 3 tiers of Montgomery Assessment of 3 to 11 years vocabulary-basic, high frequency and curriculum Vocabulary Acquisition (MAVA) based. 3 to 21 years oral Oral and Written Language Assesses listening comprehension, oral expression, scale; 5 to 21 years Scales (OWLS) (Carrow-Woolfolk) and written expression. written scale 3 to 21 years oral Oral and Written Language Scales Assesses listening comprehension, oral expression, scale; 5 to 21 years II (OWLS II) (Carrow-Woolfolk) and written expression. written scale Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test 4 Measures the receptive (hearing) vocabulary of 2.5 to 90+ years Form A (PPVT-4) children and adults. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test 4 Measures the receptive (hearing) vocabulary of 2.5 to 90+ years Form B (PPVT-4) children and adults. Pragmatic Language Observation Designed to assess students' daily classroom spoken 8 to 18 years Scale (PLOS) language behaviors. Pragmatic Language Skills Designed to assess children's pragmatic language 5 to 12 years Inventory (PLSI) abilities. Probes for ability to label objects and actions, role- 3 to 6 years, but PLAI 2-Preschool Language play, can be used with Assessment Instrument (Blank) respond to conversational interactions, respond to older children directions, define words, solve problems etc. Evaluates maturational lags, strengths, and Preschool Language Scale, 5th Birth to 7 years deficiencies by testing auditory comprehension and ed (PLS5)(Zimmerman) verbal ability. Rice Wexler Test of Early Uses manipulative tasks and pictures to assess early 3 to 8 years Grammatical Impairment morphemes and sentence structure. Screening Test for Developmental Identifies children with atypical speech-language Apraxia of Speech, 2nd 4 to 12 years problems and associated oral performance. edition (STDAS-2) Assesses language-based skills of social Social Language Development Test interpretation and interaction with friends, the skills 6 to 11 years Elementary found to be most predictive of social language development. Social Language Development Test Assesses students' language-based responses to 12 to 17 years Adolescent portrayed, peer-to-peer situations. Contains 125 items from PPVT-R to assess Test de Vocabulario en Imagenes 2.5 to 18 years vocabulary of Spanish speaking and bilingual Peabody (TVIP) children. Test for Auditory Comprehension of Measures receptive spoken vocabulary grammar, Language-3 (TACL-3) (Carrow- 3 to 10 years and syntax. Woolfolk) Test for Auditory Comprehension of Measures receptive spoken vocabulary grammar, Language-4 (TACL-4) (Carrow- 3 to 10 years and syntax. Woolfolk) Test of Adolescent Language- Tests domains of vocabulary and grammar in areas 12 to 24 years 4 (TOAL-4) of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Evaluates picture naming of nouns and verbs, Test of Adolescent/Adult Word 12 to 80 years sentence completion naming, description naming, Finding (TAWF) (D. J. German) and category naming. Provides starting point for AAC intervention by Test of Aided Communication Children through screening symbol size and number of items, Symbol Performance (TASP) adults grammatical encoding, categorization, and syntactical performance. Test of Early Language Development- 2 to 8 years Examines receptive and expressive language. 3 (TELD-3) 1.5 to 10 years Test of Language Competence-Levels Evaluates metalinguistic performance in the areas of Level 1; 9-19 years 1 & 2 (Wiig and Secord) semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. Level 2 Test of Language Development- Evaluates children's spoken language ability within 4 to 9 years Primary 4th edition (TOLD-P:4) a semantic, grammatic, and phonological context. Measures ability to answer comprehension questions Test of Narrative Language 5 to 11 years and ability to generate a story. Assesses knowledge about situational social Test of Pragmatic Language: 2 (2nd 6 to 18 years interaction; also contains a metacognitive pragmatic ed. of TOPL) evaluative component. Test of Problem Solving-3: 6 to 11 years Addresses language based critical thinking skills. Elementary (TOPS-3) Tasks examine thinking skills relating to fair Test of Problem Solving mindedness, affect, oversimplification, clarifying, 12 to 17 years Adolescent (TOPS) analyzing, generating solutions, evaluating, and thinking independently. Evaluates picture naming of nouns and verbs, Test of Word Finding 2nd ed. (TWF- 6.5 to 13 years sentence completion naming, description naming 2) (D. J. German) and category naming. Evaluates semantic and lexical knowledge through Test of Word Knowledge (Wiig and 5 to 17 years evaluating word definitions, multiple contexts, Secord) opposites, synonyms, etc. Test of Written Language-3 (TOWL- Tests domains of vocabulary, syntactical and thematic 7.5 to 18 years 3) maturity, spelling, word usage, style, and sentences. 3 years and WH Question Comprehension Screening test for who, what, where, when, why, and upward for verbal Test (Vicker) how question forms and answer type match. children Assesses associations, antonyms, synonyms, The Word Test 2-Adolescent 12-18 years definitions, semantic absurdities, and flexible word use. Questions expressive language and semantic skills The Word Test 2-Elementary 6 to 11 years in association, synonyms,
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