SLAM Kittens Love Milk Cards
This set of language elicitation cards and questions was designed as a tool to be used in assessing language for preschool and elementary school aged children.
SLAM Dog Comes Home Cards
This set of language elicitation cards and questions was designed as a tool to be used in assessing language for preschool and elementary school aged children.
Receptive Language Comprehension and Following Directions (DDPE Playlist: Module 5)
In this video module Cate continues to look at the child’s receptive language skills using excerpts of auditory comprehension subtests from the PLS-5 English and Spanish editions.
(Dollaghan & Campbell, 1998) Nonword Repetition and Child Language Impairment
This article was one of the first to investigate nonword repetition as dynamic assessment. It also highlighted its importance as a less biased measure of language impairment for individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Understanding Assessment: Nonword Repetition Assessment Task
This document contains the nonword tasks first developed by Dollaghan & Campbell (1998) as part of assessment that is less biased towards diverse populations.
Test Review: CELF-5
Parts of the CELF-5 can be used to probe for information and language samples, but its limitations prevent it from being used to identify disorder or disability.
(Hasson et al., 2013) Discriminating Disorder from Difference Using Dynamic Assessment with Bilingual Children
This study builds on recent evidence of the usefulness of dynamic assessment (DA) along with a mediated learning experience (MLE) and graduated prompting as a more appropriate method of determining the presence of language disorder (LD) in culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children.
Test Review: CELF-4 Spanish
The CELF-4 is a standardized test designed to assess the presence of a language disorder or delay in Spanish speaking children which should be used to probe for information and not to identify a disorder or disability.
Test Review: CELF-P2 Spanish
The CELF-P2 is designed to assess the presence of a language disorder or delay in Spanish speaking students and only be used to probe for information and not to identify a disorder or disability.
Test Resource Guide: Volume V- Communication/Language Assessment Tests of Language Proficiency
This resource, originally published in 1997, consists of reviews of standardized tests that are intended to measure language and communication skills. This volume is one in a series of guides for assessment in the New York City Public Schools.
