Assessment Tools



The Speech Lending Library--Assessment ToolsAdolescent Language Screening Test - (ALST)Developed to screen for deficits associated with spoken language. Specifically, it screens for deficits in the dimension of language use, content, and form. It consists of seven subtests: Pragmatics, Receptive Vocabulary, Concepts, Expressive Vocabulary, Morphology and Phonology. Age range 11yrs –17 yrs.Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale 3 – (AAPS-3)This tool was designed to provide a useful measure articulatory proficiency in children and adults. Age range is 1 year 5 months through 18 years. Information is provided on a child’s level of correct articulation (articulatory competence), a global level of intelligibility and developmental age of articulatory proficiency. Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech “The purpose of the Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech is to provide clinicians and researchers with a means of measuring intelligibility and speaking rate of dysarthric individuals.” It is a tool designed for quantifying intelligibility in single words and sentences, as well as speaking rate in adults and adolescents. It is recommended that the administration be recorded.Clinical Assessment of Ariculation and Phonolgy-(CAAP)This tool allows SLPs to assess English articulation and phonology in preschool and school age children. The CAAP includes an articulation inventory and two phonological process checklists. Age range is 2 yr 6 months to 8 years 11 months. Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - 5 (CELF-5)This tool determines the nature of the language disorder, the student's language strengths and weaknesses, and Receptive/Expressive Language Skills. Additional composite scores include Language Structure, Language Content, Language Content and Memory, and Working Memory. Further testing with supplementary subtests--Phonological Awareness, Rapid Automatic Naming, Digit Span, Sequences, Word Associations and the Memory Composites--enables you to determine what critical clinical skills and behaviors underlie the student's language disorder. Age range is 5 – 21 yrs. Administration is 30 – prehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL): The CASL is a norm-referenced oral language assessment battery of tests for children and young adults aged 3 through 21 years. The CASL provides an in-depth evaluation of 1) the oral language processing systems of auditory comprehension, oral expression, and word retrieval, 2) the knowledge and use of words and grammatical structures of language, 3) the ability to use language for special tasks requiring high-level cognitive functions, and 4) the knowledge and use of language in communicative contexts. Standard scores have a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test - EOWPVT-4This tool provides an assessment of an individual’s speaking vocabulary by naming (in English) the objects, actions, or concepts presented in pictures. Age range is 2 year 0 months to over 80 years. This test can be used with individuals who have experienced stroke, concussion, traumatic brain injury, or neurodegenerative disease. Expressive Vocabulary Test, Second Edition –EVT-2The EVT-2 assesses expressive vocabulary and word retrieval for children and adults aged 2 years 6 months through 90 years and older. This test measures expressive vocabulary knowledge with 2 types of items, labeling and synonym. Word retrieval is evaluated by comparing expressive and receptive vocabulary skills using standard score differences between EVT-2 and the conformed PPVT-4. The EVT-2 does not require examinees to read, write, or give lengthy oral responses. The average test completion time is 10 to 20 minutes. Goldman-Fristoe 2—Test of Articulation - (GFTA-2)The GFTA-2 is administered to systematically assess a client’s articulation of the consonant sounds. It provides normative information for individuals aged 2-21. “GFTA-2 Sounds-in-Words uses 34 picture plates and 53 target words to elicit the articulation of 61 consonant sounds in the initial, medial, and/or final position and 16 consonant clusters (blends) in the initial position.”Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children This assessment was developed to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of developmental apraxia (or dyspraxia) of speech in children with highly unintelligible productions. Age range 2 years through 6 years.Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis-2 (KLPA-2)“The KLPA-2 is a norm-referenced, in-depth analysis of overall phonological process usage. Designed as a companion tool to the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-2, the KLPA-2 makes use of the 53 target words elicited by GFTA-2 Sounds-in-Words to provide further diagnostic information.” Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS-II): The Oral and Written Language Scales, Second Edition (OWLS-II) is a set of four interrelated scales that together provide a comprehensive assessment of language. The OWLS-II scales – Listening Comprehension (LC), Oral Expression (OE), Reading Comprehension (RC) and Written Expression (WE) – enable assessment of oral language skills for ages 3 to 21 and written language skills for ages 5 to 21. It is designed to identify strengths and weaknesses in language, help determine the existence of language delays and disabilities and guide eligibility for services and intervention planning. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test – 4 (PPVT-4)The PPVT-4 measures the receptive (hearing) vocabulary of children and adults. The age range for this test is 2 years 6 months through 90+ yearsPreschool Language Scale – Fifth Edition (PLS-5)The PLS-5 is designed to identify preschoolers who have a language delay or disorder. It can be used with children from birth to 6 years, 11 months of age. This scale evaluates receptive and expressive language. Three supplemental assessments are also included: the Language Sample Checklist, the Articulation Screener, and the Caregiver Questionnaire.Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test- ROWPVT-4The ROWPVT-4 tests an individual’s ability to match a spoken word with an image of an object, action, or concept. Age range is 2 year 0 months to over 80 years.Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Test-Second Edition (REEL-3)The REEL-3 uses observational information reported by parents or guardians to identify provisionally any major receptive and expressive language problems or other disabilities that affect language in infants and toddlers up to 3 years of age. It also contains a supplemental inventory of vocabulary words.Social Lanugage Development Test-Elementary (SLDE)The SLDE is designed to assess language-based skills of social interpretation and interaction with friends. This test includes several subtests: making inferences, interpersonal negotiations, multiple interpretations, and supporting peers. Age range: 6-11 years.Social Lanugage Development Test-Adolescent (SLDA)The SLDTA is a test of social language skills that focus on social interpretation and interaction with peers. This test requires a student to take someone's perspective, make correct inferences, solve problems with peers (stating /justifying a solution), interpret social language, and understand idioms, irony, and sarcasm. Age range: 12-17 years.Stuttering Severity Instrument (SSI-4)The SSI-4 retains the behavioral measures (frequency, duration, physical concomitants) that were included in the SSI-3. Several measures and types of judgments have been added to the SSI-4 to provide a more comprehensive assessment of stuttering severity. It can be administered to both readers and non-readers. Picture plates are provided to elicit speaking samples from young children. The SSI contains severity conversion tables for preschool (ages 2-10 to 5-11), school-age (ages 6-1 to 16-11), and adult (ages 17-0 and older).Test of Early Written Language – 2 (TEWL-2) This assessment measures early writing ability in children age 3 years through 10 years 11 months. It consists of two subtests: The Basic Writing Subtest focuses on the functional, tool, or mechanical components of writing. The Contextual Writing Subtest measures a child’s ability to generate a writing sample (i.e., story, narration, or composition). Test of Language Development—Intermediate (TOLD-I:4)The TOLD-I: 4 is designed to test the general language skills of children ages 8-0 to 17-11. It identifies children who are significantly below their peers in language proficiency. Subtests include: sentence combining, picture vocabulary, word ordering, relational vocabulary, grammatic comprehension, and multiple meanings. The test is administered individually and takes approximately 30 - 60 minutes to administer. Test of Word Finding – 2 (TWF-2) This diagnostic tool is for the assessment of children’s word finding skills. Target population is children ages 4 years through 12 years 11 months. Sections include: Picture Naming (Nouns), Sentence Completion Naming, Picture Naming (Verbs), Picture Naming (Categories), Comprehension Check.The Assessment of Phonological Processes – Revised (APP-R)This tool is designed to assess children with highly unintelligible speech. It includes two phonological screening protocols, one developed for the preschooler and the other for the older elementary-school age child who seems to become considerably less intelligible in conversation than while naming monosyllabic or bisyllabic words. If further assessment is needed, it includes an Assessment of Phonological Processes. The Token Test for ChildrenThis assessment is designed to measure subtle receptive language dysfunction in children. The age range is 3 years through 12 years and 5 months. The test is divided into five parts or subtests, each part presenting progressively longer and more complex commands.The Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale“The Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale is a criterion referenced instrument designed to assess the language skills of children from birth through 36 months of age.” This scale addresses the following areas of communication: interaction-attachment, pragmatics, gesture, play, language comprehension, and language expression. Behaviors may be observed by the clinician or reported by the parent. Verbal Dyspraxia ProfileThe Verbal Dyspraxia Profile contains charts of Oral-Motor Movement Development (from birth to 2 years of age) and Parallel Patterns in Feeding and Speech to provide background information to the clinician before completing the checklists. There are three checklists included in the profile: Verbal Dyspraxia: Clinical Picture Checklist, Oral-Motor Movement Observed in Imitation Checklist, and Automatic Oral-Motor Movements in Feeding Checklist. The profile also provides goals to start the remediation process. ................
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