Language Tests Available in the Clinic

Test Age Range Purpose Types of Scores Reported

Provides an estimate of students' listening Diagnostic Achievement Test for and speaking skills and their knowledge of Adolescents - Second Edition (DATAinformation commonly taught in the schools 2) 12-0 to 18-11 yrs. or acquired through self-study Test of Adolescent and Adult Language - Third Edition (TOAL-3) Test of Problem Solving - 2 Adolescent (TOPS-2 Adolescent) Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test (EOWPVT) Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test (ROPVT) Determines areas of relative strength and 12-0 to 24-11 yrs. weakness across language ability Assesses a broad range of language-based critical thinking and problem solving skills Assesses an individual's English speaking vocabulary Assesses an individual's English hearing vocabulary Measures the development of spoken language Assesses the auditory comprehension of vocabulary, grammatical morphemes, and elaborated phrases and sentences

Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), percentile rank, and quotients (m=100, SD=15) Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), percentile rank, quotients (m=100, SD=15) Age equivalents, percentile rank, and standard (m=100, SD=15) Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, and age equivalent Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, and age equivalent Raw, quotient (m=100, SD=15), age equivalent, and percentile rank Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), age equivalent, percentile rank, and quotient (m=100, SD=15)

12-17 yrs. 2-0 to 18-11 yrs. 2-0 to 18-11 yrs.

Test of Early Language Development - Third Edition (TELD-3) 2-0 to 7-11 yrs.

Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language (TACL)

2-6 to 6-6 yrs.

Wiig Assessment of Basic Concepts (WABC) (also available in Spanish) 2-6 to 7-11 yrs. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test 3rd Edition (PPVT-III) Functional Communication Profile Revised

Evaluates a child's understanding and use of Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), basic word opposites and related concepts percentile rank, and age equivalent Measures achievement in receptive vocabulary attainment for standard English and screens verbal ability Informally evaluates a variety of communication skills in children and adults with developmental delays Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, NCE, stanine, and age equivalent

2-6 to 90+ yrs.

3 yrs. to adults

Raw, examiner's ratings

Test of Early Written Language Second Edition (TEWL-2) Montgomery Assessment of Vocabulary Acquisition (MAVA) Boehm Test of Basic Concepts-3 Preschool (Boehm-3 Preschool)

3-0 to 10-11 yrs. 3-0 to 12-11 yrs.

Measures early writing ability in children Assesses receptive and expressive vocabulary Assesses understanding of the basic relational concepts important for language and cognitive development

Raw, quotient (m=100, SD=15), NCE, age equivalent, and percentile rank Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), age equivalent, and percentile rank Raw, percent correct, performance range, percentile rank Scaled subtests 6-10 (m=10, SD=3), overall composite (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, concept age equivalents, descriptive classifications Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), percentile rank, age equivalent, and quotients (m=100, SD=15) Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), composite (m=100, SD=15), scales (m=100, SD=15), and percentile rank Individual Test Scores, Core Composite, and Index Scores are reported in the following ways: standard (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, normal curve equivalent (m=50, SD=21.06), stanine (m=5, SD=2), and test-age equivalent

3-0 to 5-11 yrs.

Bracken Basic Concept Scale - Third Edition: Receptive (BBCS-3:R) 3-0 to 6-11 yrs.

Measures children's comprehension of foundational and functionally relevant education concepts

Fluharty Preschool Speech and Language Screening Test (FPSLST) 3-0 to 6-11 yrs.

Screens the expressive and receptive language skills of pre-school children Assesses expressive and receptive skills, pre-academic skills, and articulation in children

Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills (K-SEALS)

3-0 to 6-11 yrs.

Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL)

3-21 yrs.

Assesses oral language skills needed to become literate and succeed in school/work

Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS)

3-21 yrs.

Assesses receptive and expressive language Raw, Ability, standard (m=100, in three areas: Listening Comprehension, SD=15), percentile rank, NCE or Oral Expression, and Written Expression stanine, and age or grade equivalent Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), quotient (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, age equivalent, and grade Measures the reading ability of young children equivalent Scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3); Core Language Score and Indexes reported as standard (m=100, SD=15), age equivalent, and percentile rank

Test of Early Reading Ablility - Third Edition (TERA-3) 3-6 to 8-6 yrs.

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool- Second Edition (CELF Preschool-2)

3-6 yrs.

Evaluates general language abiliity in young children Informally assesses the oral communication performance of preschool and kindergarten children

Oral Communication Battery (OCB) Rice/Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Impairment (Rice/Wexler)

3-6 yrs.

Raw

3-8 yrs

Aids in identifying, diagnosing, screening, and follow up evaluations of grammatical deficits Probe (raw), criterion, and growth in young children curves Measures both receptive and expressive oral Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), vocabulary percentile rank, and age equivalent Assesses auditory skills necessary for the development, use, and understanding of language commonly used in academic and everyday activities Assesses spoken language, specifically receptive, organizational, and expressive competencies in the major components of linguistics Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), standard (m=100, SD=15), and percentile rank Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), index (m=100, SD=15), age equivalent, and percentile rank

Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test (CREVT) 4-0 to 17-11 yrs.

Test of Auditory Processing Skills (TAPS-3)

4-0 to 18-11 yrs.

Test of Language DevelopmentPrimary: Fourth Edition (TOLD-P:4)

4-0 to 8-11 yrs.

Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test - 3rd Edition (SPELT3) 4-0 to 9-11 yrs.

Assesses morphology and syntax (morphosyntax) skills Informal child behavioral observation completed by parents, teachers, speechlanguage professionals, and/or other education specialists

Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, and age equivalent

Listening Inventory

4-17 yrs.

Examiner ratings, cut-off scores

preLAS 2000 English (also available in Spanish) 4-6 yrs. Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL) 5-0 to 19-11 yrs.

Measures receptive and expressive language skills to place second-language learners in appropriate classroom settings and measure the developing language of first-language learners of English Cut-off scores Assesses a variety of memory functions that Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), are of clinical and theoretical interest index (m=100, SD=15) Assesses children's phonological awareness, phoneme-grapheme correspondence, and Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), age phonetic decoding skills equivalent, percentile rank, Assesses Spanish-language morphemes and their allomorphic variations Raw (must develop own norms) Measures comprehension and production of connected speech used to tell stories Measures the quality and quantity of a subject's auditory thinking and reasoning Assesses skill in the reception and expression of semantics Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), index (m=100, SD=15), age equivalent, and percentile rank Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), scaled (m=10, SD=3), age equivalent, percentile rank, stanine Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), and percentile rank Scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3); Core Language Score and Indexes reported as standard (m=100, SD=15), age equivalent, and percentile rank Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), percentile rank, grade equivalent, and quotients (m=100, SD=15) Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, and age equivalent Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), composite quotients (m=100, SD=15), age/grade equivalent, and percentile ranks Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), Oral Reading Quotient (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, grade equivalent, and age equivalent Raw, percentile rank, age equivalent, standard score (m=10, SD=3), and quotients (m=100, SD=3) Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), age equivalent, and percentile rank

Phonological Awareness Test 2 Spanish Test for Assessing Morphologic Production (STAMP)

5-0 to 9-11 yrs. 5-11 yrs.

Test of Narrative Language (TNL) Test of Auditory Reasoning and Processing Skills (TARPS) Test of Word Knowledge (TOWK)

5-11 yrs.

5-14 yrs. 5-17 yrs.

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - Fourth Edition (CELF-4) (also available in Spanish) 5-21 yrs.

Evaluates general language abiliity Assesses students who have difficulty reading continuous print and who require an evaluation of specific abilities and weaknesses Assesses language-based critical thinking skills

Gray Oral Reading Tests - Diagnostic (GORT-D) 5-6 to 12-11 yrs. Test of Problem Solving - 3 Elementary (TOPS-3 Elementary) 6-0 to 12-11 yrs.

Diagnostic Achievement Battery Third Edition (DAB-3)

6-0 to 14-11 yrs.

Assesses listening, speaking, reading, writing, and mathematical skills

Gray Oral Reading Tests - Fourth Edition (GORT-4)

6-0 to 18-11 yrs.

Assesses oral reading rate, accuracy, fluency, and comprehension

Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (CTONI) Listening Test

6-0 to 89-11 yrs. 6-11 yrs.

Measures different but interrelated nonverbal intellectual abilities Assesses the listening skills and behaviors of students

Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE)

6-24 yrs.

Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), standard (m=100, SD=15), age Measures ability to pronounce printed words equivalent, grade equivalent, and accurately and fluently percentile rank Assesses ability to recognize and express the Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), critical semantic attributes of his/her lexicon percentile rank, and age equivalent Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), quotients (m=100, SD=15), and percentile rank Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), composite (m=100, SD=15), age equivalent, grade equivalent, and percentile rank Raw, scaled subtests (m=10, SD=3), index (m=100, SD=15), age equivalent, and percentile rank Raw, stanine (m=5, SD=2), and percentile rank Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, and age equivalent Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, spelling age, and grade equivalent

WORD Test-R (Elementary) Test of Written Language - Third Edition (TOWL-3)

7-0 to 11-11 yrs.

7-0 to 15-11 yrs.

Assesses written language skills

Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing 7-24 yrs. Test of Language DevelopmentIntermediate: Fourth Edition (TOLDI:4) 8-0 to 17-11 yrs. Learning Disabilities Diagnostic Inventory (LDDI) 8-0 to 18-11 yrs. Preschool Language Scale - Fourth Edition (PLS-4) (also available in Spanish) Test of Written Spelling - Fourth Edition (TWS-4) Phonological Awareness and Reading Profile - Intermediate

Assesses phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming Assesses spoken language, specifically receptive, organizational, and expressive competencies in the major components of linguistics Aids in identifying intrinsic processing disorders in children and adolescents Aids in identifying children who have a language disorder

Birth to 6-11 yrs.

Grades 1-12

Assesses spelling skills

Grades 2+

Informally assesses phonological awareness, phonics, knowledge, naming speed, and fluency Raw (pre- and post-test) Measures the quality of students' written products and their perceptions or Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), misperceptions of strategic processes related percentile rank, NCE, stanine, and to effective writing age equivalent Measures young children's ability to isolate individual phonemes in spoken words Measures critical skills that underlie early reading success and comprehension Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), and percentile rank Raw (compares raw scores to others in same grade)

Writing Process Test (WPT) Test of Phonological Awareness (TOPA) Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)

Grades 2-12

Grades K-2 Grades K-6

Language Processing Test Strong Narrative Assessment Procedure (SNAP)

Grades K-6 Grades K-8

Evaluates behaviors mediated in the secondary zone of the temporal lobe such as Raw, standard (m=100, SD=15), age functions of analysis and organization equivalent, and percentile rank Analyzes narrative language Assesses the effectiveness and appropriateness of a student's pragmatic language skills Evaluates the language development and emergent literacy skills of prekindergarten, kindergarten, and first-grade children Raw Raw, quotient (m=100, SD=15), percentile rank, and age equivalent Scaled (m=10, SD=3), index (m=100, SD=15), grade-based criterionreferenced, and percentile rank

Test of Pragmatic Language (TOPL) Grades K-9

Assessment of Language and Literacy (ALL)

Grades Pre-K-1

Diagnostic Reading Assessment Dynamic Assessment and Intervention

School-age

Informally provides information about a student's word recognition skills, comprehension strategies, rates of comprehension and general reading behavior Raw data Informally maps the zone of proximal development for the ability to generate narratives

School-age

Raw, examiner's ratings

Screening Instrument for Targeting Educational Risk (SIFTER)

School-age

Informally assesses attention skills

Raw