Assessments for specific language impairment
Diagnosing the level of children's language ability is important.
Without assessment, children whose language ability is not at the expected
level cannot receive the correct interventions. Assessments for specific language
impairment are almost all designed for speech and language professionals to
use and so are unsiutable for administration by parents or other non- professionals.
Assessments for specific language impairment are mostly normative; i.e. The
scores are measured against a sample group who took the test while it was
being created to give a base-line level of 'normal' achievement.
The following assessments of specific language impairment are currently in
use by SLTs and other practitioners.
- Social Skills Rating Scale (SSRS)
- Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
- Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Vineland)
- Test of Problem Solving - Elementary Revised (TOPS-E, Revised)
- Assessment of Comprehension and Expression 6 - 11
- British Picture Vocabulary Scale: Second Edition
- Checking Individual Progress in Phonics
- Developing Language
- Expressive Vocabulary Test
- Neale Analysis of Reading Ability: Second Edition
- OWLS: Listening Comprehension and Oral Expression Scales
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test: Third Edition
- Phoneme Factory Phonology Screener
- Phoneme Factory Sound Sorter
- Phonological Assessment Battery: Standardised Edition
- Reynell Developmental Language Scales III: The University of Reading Edition
- Social Use of Language Programme: Revised Edition
- Symbolic Play Test 2nd Edition
- Teaching Talking: Second Edition
- The Picture File