Name of assessment Who can administer Who is it for? What does it assess? Ages and Stages Questionnaire-3 (ASQ-3) Caregiver, Interventionist, Pediatrician, Teacher 1 to 5.6 years Reveals child’s strengths, skills, and areas of concern. Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills, Revised (ABLLS-R) Teacher, Speech Language Pathologist, Psychologist 3 to 9 years Identifies difficulty in language, academic, self-help and motor skills. It is an assessment, curriculum guide and skills tracking system. Autism Social Skills Profile (ASSP) Caregiver, Teacher, Speech Language Pathologist 5 to 18 years Checklist designed to provide a comprehensive measure of social functioning in children and adolescents with ASD. The ASSP was designed to assist with intervention planning and to provide a measure of intervention outcomes. Children’s Communication Checklist – 2 Psychologist, Speech Language Pathologist 4 to 16.11 years Looks at speech, vocabulary, sentence structure and social language skills of children and adolescents who speak in sentences. Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals – 5 (CELF-5) Speech Language Pathologist 5 to 21 years Attention to people, play, vocal development, gesture, social communication, vocabulary, qualitative, quantitative and special concepts, time/sequence, morphology, syntax, phonological awareness. Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool-P-2 (CELF:P-2) Speech Language Pathologist 3 to 6 years Core language, receptive and expressive language, language, content and structure. Communication Matrix Speech Language Pathologist Birth to 2 years Looks at refusing, requesting, social interactions, and seeking information. Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL) Speech Language Pathologist 3 to 21 years Assesses basic concepts, antonyms/synonyms, sentence completion, idiomatic language, syntax construction, paragraph comprehension, grammatical morphemes, sentence comprehension, nonliteral language, inference and awareness of appropriate language in a situational context. Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Speech Language Pathologist, Psychologist, 6 months to 6 years Measures eye gaze, emotion, communication, gestures, sounds, words, understanding, and object use.
Developmental Profiles (CSBS DP) Early Interventionist, Pediatrician Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (CTONI) Psychologist 6 to 89 years Uses nonverbal formats to measure general intelligence of children and adults whose performance on traditional tests might be adversely affected by subtle or overt impairments involving language or motor abilities. Evaluating Acquired Skills In Communication-3 (EASIC-3) Speech Language Pathologist 3 months to 6.3 years Assesses the areas of prelinguistic skills, semantics, morphology, syntax and pragmatics. Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test – 4th Edition (EOWPVT-4) Psychologist, Speech Language Pathologist 2 to 80 years Tests an individual’s ability to name, with one word, objects, actions and concepts when presented with color illustrations. Can be used to assess and document vocabulary development. Expressive Vocabulary Test, 2nd Edition Psychologist, Speech Language Pathologist 2.6 to 80 years Assesses expressive vocabulary with a test that requires no reading or writing. Functional Communication Profile- Revised (FCP-R) Speech Language Pathologist, Teacher 3 years to adult Evaluates sensory-motor skills, attentiveness, receptive and expressive language, pragmatic/social language, speech, voice, oral fluency and nonverbal communication. Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS) Speech Language Pathologist, Psychologist 3 to 21 years for listening comprehension and oral expression; 5 to 21 years for written expression Assesses vocabulary, grammar, pragmatic structures and higher order thinking; provides an individual’s ability to understand and produce connected language, both spoken and written. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 4th Edition (PPVT-4) Speech Language Pathologist, Psychologist 2.6 to 80 years Measures understanding of the spoken word to assess vocabulary acquisition. Preschool Language Scale-5 (PLS-5) Speech Language Pathologist Birth to 7.11 years Targets interaction, attention, vocal/gestural behaviors and different levels of play. Pragmatic Language Observation Scale Speech Language Pathologist, Teacher, Psychologist 8 to 17.11 years Assesses student’s daily classroom spoken language behaviors.
estimates about future language development. TEACCH Transition Assessment Profile (TTAP) Teacher, Psychologist, Caregiver, Speech Language Pathologist 3rd through 12th grades Evaluates six major functional skills areas: vocational skills, vocational behavior, independent functioning, leisure skills, functional communication and interpersonal behavior. Test of Language Speech Language Pathologist, Psychologist Level 1: 5 to 9 years; Level 2: 10 to 18 years Assesses higher level language function in ambiguous sentences, listening comprehension, making inference, oral expression, figurative language, memory. Test of Language Development: Intermediate-4 (TOLD: I-4) Speech Language Pathologist 8 to 17.11 years Sentence combining, picture vocabulary, word ordering, relational vocabulary, morphological comprehension and multiple meanings. Test of Language Development: Primary-4 (TOLD:P-4) Speech Language Pathologist 6 to 19 years Picture, relational and oral vocabulary, syntactic understanding, sentence imitation, morphological completion, word discrimination, word analysis and word articulation. Test of Pragmatic Language Speech Language Pathologist 6 to 19 years Physical setting, audience, topic, purpose, visual-gestural cues, abstraction. Test of Problem Solving Speech Language Pathologist 12 to 18 years Making inferences, determining solutions, problem solving, interpreting, perspective and transferring insights. Test of Problem Solving (TOPS-2) Speech Language Pathologist 6 to 12 years Making inferences, sequencing, negative questions, problem solving, predicting, determining causes. Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program Teacher, Speech Language Pathologist, Psychologist 18 months to adult Criterion reference tool, curriculum guide and skill tracking system. Serves as a guide for development of individualized language, social skills and learning.