Diagnostic Tests and Screeners

• Oral and Written Language Scales - 2nd edition 
• Age range: 3:0 - 21:11
• evaluate and ID oral and written language problems related to autism, intellectual disability, and hearing impairment

**has a basal and ceiling

• Weiss Comprehensive Articulation Test 
• Age Range: 3:0+
• assess articulation and associated parameters
• evaluates vowels, diphthongs, inconsistent misarticulation, and correct articulation of later developing phones 
• determine cause, plan therapy, predict and report progress

**uses picture or sentence stimuli

• Age Range: 3:0 - 13:0 (w/ normal hearing but low intelligibility/verbal output)
• ID and describe apraxic characteristics in children with impaired intelligibility 

**contains an oral motor exam component

• Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale - 3rd Edition 
• Age Range: 1:6 - 18:0
• ID misarticulations and total articulatory proficiency
• determine global level of intelligibility  
• informal developmental language evaluation based on cognitive abilities

• Communication Activities of Daily Living - 2nd Edition 
• Age Range: 18:0 - 95:0+
• obtain a valid sample of the patient's functional communication repertoire

• Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language 
• Age Range: 3:0 - 21:0
• norm referenced oral language battery of assessments
• based in Integrated Language Theory 
• gives information on the oral language skills needed for literacy and academic and occupational success
• can monitor and record progress in language skills and knowledge

• The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - 2nd Edition 
• Age Range: 3:0 - 6:11
• tests semantics,  syntax, morphology, pre-literacy, and pragmatics to ID if a language deficit exists 

**evaluates expressive and receptive language

• Hodson Assessment of Phonological Patterns - 3rd Edition 
• Age Range: 2:0 - adult; 3:0 - 8:0 for normative data
• provide detailed analysis of phonological deviations (SODA)
• provide level of severity, treatment direction, and post treatment data

• Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test - 4th Edition 
• Age range: 2 - 80+
• test ability to access and retrieve words and assess current vocab
• provides info on reading skills, vocab development, word/concept retrieval, and cognitive skills (indirectly)
• screen for early language delay

• Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation - 2nd Edition 
• Age Range: 2:0 - 21:11
• assess articulation of consonants in spontaneous and imitative speech 
• includes sounds in words, sounds in sentences, and stimulability 

**can be used to screen for expressive language disorders, observe vowel sound pattern, and measure progress over time

• Marshalla Oral Sensorimotor Test 
• Age Range: 4:0+
• ID the presence or absence of oral sensorimotor problems

• Test of Early Language Development - 2nd Edition 
• Age range: 2:0 - 7:11
• ID students who perform below their peers in early language development 
• ID strengths and weaknesses 
• Document progress of intervention

• Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children 
• Age Range: 2:0 - 5:11
• ID level of breakdown in a child's ability to speak so that treatment can be established and improvement tracked

• Screening Test for Developmental Apraxia of Speech 
• Age Range: 4:5 - 7:7
• assist in differential diagnosis of developmental apraxia of speech

• The LinguiSystems Articulation Test
• Age Range: 3:0 - 21:11
• ID children and adults with abnormal articulation patterns 
• assess all consonants and initial blends (including vocalic r)
• estimates intelligibility 
• stimulability testing 
• elicit spontaneous speech

• Age Range: 6:0 - 11:11
• diagnose expressive vocab and semantic deficits 
• sub-tests in: associations, synonyms, semantic absurdities, antonyms, definitions, flexible word use

• Contextual Probes of Articulation Competence - Spanish 
• Age Range: 3:0+
• quick screen that assesses all Spanish phonemes and frequently occurring phonological patterns 
• full assessment that IDs articulation and phonological skills

• Photo Articulation Test- 3rd Edition 
• Age Range: 3:0 - 8:11
• elicit speech sounds and ID articulation  errors
• establish articulation inventory 
• provide cursory info on voice quality, fluency, language use, intelligibility of connected speech

• Oral Speech Mechanism Screening Examination - 3rd Edition 
• Age Range: Preschool and up
• assess adequacy of structure and functions of the oral mechanism

• Preschool Language Scales - 5th Edition 
• Age Range: birth - 7:11
• assess language development and ID children who have a language delay o disorder 

**receptive and expressive components

• Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test 
• Age Range: 2:0 - 80+
• assess ability to match a word that is heard to objects, actions, or concepts

**has basal and ceiling

• Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test - 3rd Edition
• Age Range: 4:0 - 9:11
• ID children who perform significantly below their peers in the production of morphosyntactic structures

• Test of Auditory Comprehension of Language - 3rd Edition 
• Age range: 3:0 - 9:11
• ID receptive language disorders 
• assess vocabulary, grammatical morphemes, and elaborated phrases and sentences

• Test of Childhood Stuttering 
• Age Range: 4:0 - 12:11
• ID children who stutter
• Determine severity of the stutter
• Document changes in fluency over time

• Test of Language Development Primary - 4th Edition 
• Age Range: 4:8 - 8:11
• ID children who perform below their peers in language proficiency 
• ID strengths and weaknesses in language skills
• monitor progress of intervention 
• evaluate language disorders/delays in following areas: receptive, expressive, semantic, syntactic, phonological

• Carrow Elicited Language Inventory
• Age Range: 3:0 - 7:11
• measure a child's productive control of grammar

• Rhode Island Test of Language Structure 
• structured for the hearing impaired 
• Age Range: hearing impaired - 3:0-20:0; normal hearing 3:0-6:0
• measure deaf and hard of hearing students' English language and syntax comprehension via speech or sign language

• Test of Pragmatic Language 
• Age Range: 6:0 - 18:11
• evaluates social communication in context regarding listening, expressing feelings, making requests, etc.

• Stuttering Severity Instrument 
• Age Range: 2:0 - 10+
• measures stuttering severity in children and adults by frequency, duration, physical concomitants, and the naturalness of speech

• Khan Lewis Phonological Assessment 
• Age Range: 2:0 - 21:11
• companions to the GFTA

• Kindergarted Language Screening Test 
• Age Range: 4:0 - 6:11
• determines who needs further diagnostic testing to determine a language deficit and academic failure

• Adolescent Language Screening Test 
• Age Range: 11-17 yrs 
• a total language screener

• Fluharty Speech and Language Screen Test 
• Age Range: 3:0 - 6:11
• speech and language
• picture test 
• repeated sentences and sequence

• 3 minute speech language screen 
• speech language scale 
• Age Range: k-5th grade

• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test 
• Age Range: 2:6 - 90+
• provide a quick estimate of the client's receptive vocabulary abilities 
• **goes with EVT

• Expressive Vocabulary Test 
• Age Range: 2:6 - 90+
• assesses expressive vocabulary and word retrieval in children and adults

**goes with PPVT