Speech Pathology Assessment Resource List, IRCA Articles, Access Autism

IRCA Articles, Access Autism, Indiana Resource Center for Autism

Speech Pathology Assessment Resource List

Materials available for loan from the
Indiana Institute on Disability and Community

Contributed by Beverly Vicker, IRCA & Christina Creech Wray, CeDIR

It is not always practical for a school district or an agency to purchase extensive speech and language assessment material.The Indiana Institute on Disability and Community has a collection of materials that may assist Indiana speech language pathologists. Materials are on restricted checkout. A listing of resources also appears on the web at http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/cedir/slpbib.html and on http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/ircaarticles/fcommunicationarticles.html. Suggestions or comments about items can be directed to Beverly Vicker at 812-855-6508 or via email vickerb@indiana.edu.

Restricted Checkout

Selected speech and language assessment instruments are available for preview and loan only to certified speech and language pathologists (SLPs) who reside or work in Indiana. SLPs may wish to borrow the instruments for preview, training, or for limited use to assess students with low incidence disabilities.

The materials may be checked out for four weeks from the Center for Disability Information and Referral (CeDIR), Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana’s University Center for Excellence on Disabilities, 2853 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47408-2696; 800-437-7924 (toll free; Indiana only; voice/TTY); 812-855-9396 (Bloomington; voice/TTY). Due to the sales agreement, a copy of the current SLP license document (i.e., teacher certification or Indiana Professional Licensing Agency) must be on file prior to borrowing the materials. Additionally, a CeDIR registration card must be completed.

Each instrument is available on a first come, first served basis. There may be a waiting list for a particular item. Only three items can be checked out at one time. People interested in purchasing any of these instruments can contact CeDIR for ordering information. Neither the Institute nor CeDIR confer endorsement of the instruments by listing them.

Language Instruments

The following restricted checkout assessment tools evaluate some aspect of language. The authors are listed when relevant to prevent confusion between tests of similar names.

Assessment Resource	Age	Description/Contents
ASSET (Assessing Semantic Skills through Everyday Themes) (Barrett)	3 to 9 years	Uses receptive and expressive tasks that focus on labels, categories, attributes, functions, and definitions.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Profile	2 years to Adult	Identifies areas of strength and challenge; leads to functional long-range planning for AAC.
Bankson Language Test (BLT-2)	3 to 7 years	Focuses on semantic knowledge, morphological and syntactical rules, and pragmatics.
Boehm Test of Basic Concepts-Preschool Version	3 to 5 years	Screens 26 concepts over two response opportunities each; child responds to a “Point to X” stimulus.
Bracken Basic Concept Scale: Expression (BBCS:E)	3-0 to 6-11 years	Screen concepts of color, letters/sounds, numbers/counting, size, shape, direction/position, self/social awareness, texture/materials, quality, and time/sequencing.
Bracken Basic Concept Scale 3rd Edition: Receptive (BBCS: 3R)	3-0 to 6-11 years	Same concepts as expressive test.
CELF-3 Screening Test	6 to 21 years	Screening version of the CELF-3. Takes 10 to 15 minutes to administer.
CELF-3 Observational Rating Scale	6 to 21 years	Gathers information from home and school environments on listening, speaking, reading and writing.
CELF-3 Spanish Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-3	6 to 21 years	Evaluates a broad range of language skills such as linguistic concepts, formulating sentences, following directions, and listening to paragraphs.
CELF-4 Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-4	5 to 21 years	Evaluates a broad range of language skills such as recalling and formulating sentences, word classes, word definition, understanding spoken paragraphs, semantic relationships, etc.
CELF-P Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Preschool	Pre-school to early elementary aged children	Subtests include basic concepts, sentence and word structure, formulating labels, recalling meaning, and linguistic concepts.
Children’s Communication Checklist-2 (U.S. Edition).	4-0 to 16-11 years	Parent or caregiver rating scale for speech, syntax, semantics, coherence, initiation, scripted language, context, and nonverbal communication.
Communication Abilities Diagnostic Test (CADeT) (Johnson)	3 to 9 years	Tests various language performance in syntax, semantics and pragmatics during story, game, and conversational situations.
Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL)	3-21 years	Assesses language processing skills and knowledge.
Comprehensive Receptive & Expressive Vocabulary Test (CREVT) (Wallace and Hammill)	4 to 18 years	Measures both receptive and expressive vocabulary using common standardization for both areas.
Criterion Referenced Inventory of Language (Wiig)	4 to 13 years	Extension testing in the areas of semantics, pragmatics, morphology, and syntax.
ECO Program (McDonald and Gillette)	18 months to 8 years	Provides tools to evaluate the areas of social play, turn taking, preverbal communication, language and conversation for children with developmental delays.
Emerging Literacy Language Assessment (ELLA)	4-6 to 9-11 years	Screens phonological awareness and flexibility; sign and symbol recognition and interpretation; memory, retrieval and automaticity.
Evaluating Communicative Competence-Revised Ed. (Simon)	9 to 17 years	Consists of 21 informal inventories encompassing language processing, metalinguistics, and functional use of language.
Expressive Vocabulary Test (EVT) (Williams)	2 ½ to 90 years	Measures expressive vocabulary and word retrieval in standard English.
Functional Communication Profile-Revised (Kleiman)	3 years to adulthood	Facilitates compilation of skill level information from a variety of areas such as attentiveness, sensory/ motor issues, speech, fluency, voice, receptive and expressive language, voice, and social pragmatics.
The HELP Test-Elementary (Lazzari)	6 to 11 years	Assesses general language functioning including vocabulary, semantics, and grammar.
Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children	Pre-school	Diagnostic procedures for developmental apraxia; basic level treatment kit also available.
Language Processing Test-Revised (LPT-R) (Richard and Hanner)	5 to 11 years	Uses tasks for association, categorization, similarities and differences, multiple meaning, and attributes.
Listening Comprehension Test-Adolescence	12-17 years	Subtests require students to listen for a purpose such as main idea, details, reasoning, vocabulary and semantics, and understanding messages.
The Listening Test (Barrett)	6 to 11 years	Contains a teacher survey as well as a direct assessment component. Skills targeted included listening for/ understanding the main idea, details, concepts, and stories as well as engaging in reasoning.
MacArthur-Bates Communication Development Inventories (1-3)	3-37 months	Three inventories to probe parent report on gestures, words, and sentence use.
Montgomery Assessment of Vocabulary Acquisition (MAVA)	3-0 to 12-11 years	Receptive/expressive evaluation of the 3 tiers of vocabulary-basic, high frequency and curriculum based.
Nonspeech Test (Huer)	Infancy to 48 months	Tests receptive and expressive skills for nonspeaking children.
Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS) (Carrow-Woolfolk)	3 to 21 years oral scale: 5 to 21 years written scale	Assess listening comprehension, oral expression, and written expression.
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test III (PPVT III)	2 ½ to 90+ years	Measures listening comprehension of vocabulary in standard English.
Preschool Language Assessment Instrument (PLAI) (Blank)	3 to 6 years, but can be used with older children	Probes for ability to label objects and actions, role-play, respond to conversational interactions, respond to directions, define words, solve problems, etc.
Preschool Language Scale-3 (Zimmerman)	Birth to 7 years	Evaluates auditory comprehension, expressive language and samples articulation and spontaneous language; includes a parent questionnaire.
Rice Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Development	3 to 8 years	Uses manipulative tasks and pictures to assess early morphemes and sentence structure.
Social Emotional Evaluation (SEE)	6-0 to 12-11 years	Assesses ability to recognize and label emotions, comprehend social and emotional situations, and understand conflicting messages.
Social Language Development Test-Elementary	6-0 thru 11-11 years	Uses a question-answer + picture format to probe knowledge about situations that require making inferences, interpersonal negotiations, multiple interpretations, and supporting peers.
Test de Vocabulario en Imagenes Peabody (TVIP)	2 ½ to 18 years	Contains 125 items from PPVT-R to assess vocabulary of Spanish speaking and bilingual Latino children.
Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language-3 (TACL-3) (Carrow-Woolfolk)	3 to 10 years	Measures receptive spoken vocabulary grammar, and syntax.
Test of Adolescent Language-3 (TOAL-3)	12 to 24 years	Tests domains of vocabulary and grammar in areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Test of Adolescent/Adult Word Finding (TAWF) (German)	12 to 80 years	Evaluates picture naming of nouns and verbs, sentence completion naming, description naming, and category naming.
Test of Aided Communication Symbol Performance (TASP)	Children thru adults	Provides starting point for AAC intervention by screening symbol size and number of items, grammatical encoding, categorization, and syntactical performance.
Test of Early Language Development-3 (TELD-3)	2 to 8 years	Examines receptive and expressive language.
Test of Language Competence-Levels 1 & 2 (Wiig and Secord)	1 ½ to 10 years Level 1 9-19 years Level 2	Evaluates metalinguistic performance in the areas of semantics, syntax, and pragmatics.
Test of Narrative Language	5 thru 11 years	Measures ability to answer comprehension questions and ability to generate a story.
Test of Pragmatic Language: 2 (2nd ed. of TOPL)	5 to 14 years	Provides information within six subcomponents of pragmatic language: physical setting, audience, topic, purpose, visual-gestures cues, and abstraction.
Test of Problem Solving-3: Elementary (TOPS-3)	6 to 11 years	Addresses language based critical thinking skills.
Test of Problem Solving Adolescent (TOPS)	12 to 17 years	Tasks examine thinking skills relating to fair mindedness, affect, oversimplification, clarifying, analyzing, generating solutions, evaluating, and thinking independently.
Test of Word Finding (TWF) (D. J. German)	6 ½ to 13 years	Evaluates picture naming of nouns and verbs, sentence completion naming, description naming and category naming.
Test of Word Finding in Discourse (TWFD) (D. J. German)	6½ to 13 years	Examines quantity of verbal discourse and word finding problems.
Test of Word Knowledge (Wiig and Secord)	5 to 17 years	Evaluates semantic and lexical knowledge through evaluating word definitions, multiple contexts, opposites, synonyms, etc.
Test of Written Language-3 (TOWL-3)	7 ½ to 18 years	Tests domains of vocabulary, syntactical and thematic maturity, spelling, word usage, style, and sentences.
Wh Question Comprehension Test (Vicker)	3 years and upward for verbal children	Screening test for who, what, where, when, why, and how question forms and answer type match.
The Word Test – 2 – Adolescent	12 to 18 years	Assesses associations, antonyms, synonyms, definitions, semantic absurdities, and flexible word use.
The Word Test 2-Elementary	6-0 to 11-11 years	Questions expressive language and semantic skills in association, synonyms, semantic absurdities, antonyms, definitions, and multiple meanings.

Non-Language Focused Instruments

The following restricted checkout assessment tools evaluate an area other than language. The authors are listed when necessary to prevent confusion between other tests with similar names.

Assessment Resource	Age Range	Description/Contents
The Apraxia Profile (Hickman)	2 to 12 years	Assists SLP in documenting oral-motor sequencing difficulties.
Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech (Yorkston and Beukelman)	Adolescent to adult	Assesses single word and sentence intelligibility and speaking rates of dysarthric speakers.
Assessment of Phonological Processes-Revised (APP-R) (Hodson)	preschool through older school aged children	Depending on the age of the student, one of two screening protocols are used to identify phonological problems. Object kit is included with the test.
Children’s Speech Intelligibility Measure (CSIM) (Wilcox and Morris)	3 to 10 years	Child repeats various words which are later judged for intelligibility by a naive listener.
Dysarthria Examination Battery (Drummond)	Children to adults	Evaluates responses in the areas of respiration, phonation, resonation, articulation, and prosody.
Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis (KLPA)	2 to 6 years	Helps translate data from the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation into phonological process information.
Oral-Motor/Feeding Rating Scale (Jelm)	1 year to adult-hood	Analyzes lip/cheek, tongue, and jaw movements during feeding/eating situations.
Prosody - Voice Screening Profile (Shriberg)	Young children to adults	This manual and two audio tapes help clinicians address the domains of phrasing, rate, stress, loudness, pitch, and quality.
Ross Information Processing Assessment-Primary (RIPA-P)	5 to 13 years	Suitable for students with TBI or other neuropathologies and students with learning/language learning disabilities. Subtests assess memory, spatial and temporal orientation, organization, problem solving, and abstract reasoning.
SCAN 3:A Test of Auditory Processing Disorders in Adolescents and Adults (Keith)	13 to 50 years	Contains screening and diagnostic subtests that evaluate figure-ground, dichotic listening, filtered words and time compressed sentences.
Scan C-3: Test for Auditory Processing Disorders in Children (Keith)	5 to 12 years	Test screens for difficulty with filtered words, auditory figure-ground, competing words, and competing sentences.
Screening Test for Developmental Apraxia (Blakeley)	4 to 12 years	Evaluates expressive language discrepancy, vowels and diphthongs, oral-motor movement, verbal sequencing, motorically complex words, articulation, transposition, and prosody.
Token Test for Children	3 to 12 years	Tokens are manipulated in response to linguistic commands.
Verbal Motor Production Assessment for Children (VMPAC) (Hayden and Square)	3 to 12 years	Identifies children with oral motor problems and subsequent impact, if any, on speech production.

Videos

Assessment and treatment of narrative skills: What’s the story [videorecording]. (1998). Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

The oral mechanism examination for children and young adults: What comes after “Ahhh” [videorecording]. (1997). Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Dynamic remediation strategies for children with developmental verbal dyspraxia [videorecording]. (1998). Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Vicker, B. & Wray, C. (2009). Speech pathology assessment resource list. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Resource Center for Autism.

9/4/2009