Comprehensive Language Assessments 2021-22 School Year

Test Description Age Range

CASL-2 Measures the oral language processing skills of 3-21

Comprehensive Assessment of comprehension and expression across four categories:
Spoken Language Second Edition Lexical/Semantic,
Syntactic, Supralinguistic, and Pragmatic

CELF P:2 Assesses aspects of language necessary for preschool 3.0 – 6.11
Clinical Evaluation of Language children to transition to the classroom
Fundamentals® Preschool-2 (CELF®
Preschool-2)

CELF P: 3 now available Assesses aspects of language necessary for preschool children to 3.0 – 6.11
(September 2020) Clinical meet the language demands of the classroom.
Evaluation of Language
Fundamentals® Preschool-3
(CELF®
Preschool-3)

CELF-5 CELF-5 provides clinicians with a streamlined, flexible battery to 5-21

Clinical Evaluation of Language assess semantics, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics for students
Fundamentals | Fifth Edition ages 5-21. CELF-5 features structured and authentic tests of language
ability (including observational and interactive measures) for a
complete picture of students' language skills.

LCT-A:NU The LCT-A: NU evaluates a student’s abilities in specific listening 12.0 to 17.11
Listening Comprehension Test– comprehension skills. Teachers can use the results to help students
Adolescent: Normative Update improve their skills and behaviors in both the classroom and in
everyday listening situations. There are five subtests: Main Idea,
Details, Reasoning, Vocabulary and Semantics, and Understanding
 Messages. Students are required to (a) pay careful attention to what
they hear, (b) listen with a purpose in mind, and (c) remember what
they hear well enough to think about it. Students must also avoid
being impulsive in giving answers, and they must express answers
verbally. The test can be used to identify students who have specific
language impairments, plan interventions, and represent listening
comprehension in research studies.

LCT-2 The Listening Comprehension Test 2 assesses listening through 6.0-11.11

The Listening Comprehension Test 2 natural classroom situations. The tasks reveal students’ strengths
and weaknesses in integrated language problem-solving reasoning,
and comprehension of material presented auditorily. Because
listening (receiving, attending to, interpreting, and responding to
verbal messages) is critical for classroom success, each subtest
requires students to pay attention to what they hear, listen with a
purpose in mind, avoid giving impulsive answers, and express
answers verbally. The test closely models the types of listening
required in a classroom; students must determine what part of the
message needs immediate attention, organize and understand the
input, and plan appropriate express answers verbally.
The test closely models the types of listening required in a
classroom; students must determine what part of the message
needs immediate attention, organize and understand the input, and
plan appropriate responses. In order to respond, the student must
integrate vocabulary, syntax and morphology, phonology, and
thinking.
The Listening Comprehension Test 2 is composed of 5 subtests:
● Main Ideas
● Details
 ● Reasoning
● Vocabulary
● Understanding Messages

LPT-3 Use the LPT 3 Elementary to diagnose language processing disorders. 5.0-11.11
Language Processing Test 3 Elementary The test evaluates the ability to attach increasingly more meaning to
information received to then formulate an expressive response. The
skills evaluated are discrete and carefully controlled, beginning with
simple tasks and progressively increasing the language processing
demand placed upon the student. This hierarchical approach ensures
evaluation of prerequisite skills for increased processing demand. There
are two pretests and six subtests. Each subsequent sub-test builds on
the skills previously evaluated. The test items are valid clinical indicators
of the ability to attach meaning to language.
LPT 3 Elementary contains 2 pretests and 6 sub-tests:
● Pretest 1: Labeling
● Pretest 2: Stating Functions
● Subtest A: Associations
● Subtest B: Categorization
● Subtest C: Similarities
● Subtest D: Differences
● Subtest E: Multiple Meanings
● Subtest F: Attributes

OWLS-II The OWLS-II evaluates four language processes on four separate 3-21
Oral and Written Language Scales, scales: Listening Comprehension, Oral Expression, Reading
Second Edition Comprehension, and Written Expression. Each of these scales
 assesses four linguistic structures: ● Lexical/Semantics
● Syntax
● Pragmatics
● Supralinguistics
Because it looks at the same linguistic structures across four distinct
language processes, the OWLS-II provides an unusually detailed,
coherent, and integrated assessment. Although its four scales can be
used separately, together they give you a comprehensive score profile
that pinpoints language delays, identifies strengths and weaknesses in
all areas, and guides intervention.

PLS 5 PLS™-5 Preschool Language Scales Fifth Edition offers a Birth-7:11

Preschool Language Scales | Fifth comprehensive developmental language assessment with items
Edition that range from pre verbal, interaction-based skills to emerging
language to early literacy.

RESCA-E The RESCA-E assesses multiple functional language and social 5-12
Receptive, Expressive & Social communication skills in children (ages 5-12) with one
Communication Assessment-Elementary comprehensive assessment! Nine core subtests (and five
supplemental subtests) present tasks ranging from basic naming
(vocabulary) to advanced inference skills to accommodate a wide
range of abilities.
RECEPTIVE
Three core subtests target receptive language at the word,
sentence, and narrative levels:
● Comprehension of Vocabulary
● Comprehension of Oral Directions
 ● Comprehension of Stories and Questions
Two supplemental subtests provide more detailed information:
● Comprehension of Basic Morphology and Syntax
● Executing Oral Directions

EXPRESSIVE
Three core subtests target expressive language at the word,
sentence, and narrative levels (with and without picture support):
● Expressive Labeling of Vocabulary
● Expressive Skills for Describing and Explaining
● Narrative Skills
One supplemental subtest provides more detailed
information:
● Expressive Use of Basic Morphology and
Syntax
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
Three core subtests target social-language knowledge: matching
oral messages to emotions, answering inferential questions, and
using social language across situations:
● Comprehension of Body Language and Vocal Emotion
● Social and Language Inference
● Situational Language Use

TILLS The Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills™ (TILLS™) is the 6-18
Test of Integrated Language & Literacy reliable, valid assessment professionals need to test oral and written
Skills language skills in students ages 6—18 years. TILLS is a
comprehensive, norm referenced test that has been standardized for
three purposes:

● To identify language/literacy disorders

● To document patterns of relative strengths and
weaknesses ● To track changes in language and literacy
skills over time

To achieve these purposes, TILLS is constructed to allow you to

derive scores for identifying, tracking, and profiling a student’s
strengths and weaknesses and interpreting the results to support
decisions about what to do next.

15 Extensively Researched Subtests

The TILLS assessment is all professionals need to capture the
complete picture of students’ oral and written language skills. TILLS
is composed of 15 subtests that allow examiners to assess and
compare students’ language-literacy skills at both the sound/word
level and the sentence/discourse level across the four oral and
written modalities— listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Curriculum Relevant
TILLS measures integrated language-literacy abilities that
reflect the complex language and literacy demands of the
general education curriculum.

Strong Specificity and Sensitivity

 TILLS tested both sensitivity and specificity across the full age
range covered by the test. In the manual, diagnostic accuracy data
are broken down into nine different “age bands” meaningful to
the development of language and literacy skills. Sensitivity ranges
from 81% to 97%, and specificity ranges from 81% to 100%.

TNL-2 The Test of Narrative Language–Second Edition (TNL-2) is a norm 4.0 to 15.11
Test of Narrative Language– referenced test that measures children’s narrative language abilities
Second Edition (i.e., children’s ability to understand and tell stories). Narration is an
important aspect of spoken language (not usually measured by oral
language tests) that provides a critical foundation for literacy. The
TNL-2 enables clinicians to assess important aspects of narrative
language without having to transcribe children’s stories – saving hours
of transcription time. TNL-2 provides a valid and reliable metric of
narrative language development and is a natural complement to other
standardized tests that use contrived formats to assess components of
oral language. It is especially useful for diagnosing language-based
learning disabilities. Features of the TNL-2
The TNL-2 is a:
● functional assessment of narrative comprehension and narrative
production.
● dynamic assessment in which comprehension and production
tasks are alternated so children have the opportunity to
profit from adult narrative models.
● measure of the ability to comprehend and produce three types of
stories: a script, a personal narrative, and a fictional narrative.
● system for scoring oral narratives that does not require clinicians
 to transcribe the stories.
● normative test with clear, well-organized norms tables and
administration procedures, as well as an easy-to-use record
form.
● fair and equitable assessment of narrative discourse for all
children.

TOLD P:5 The TOLD-P:5 assesses spoken language in young children. It is well 4-0 to 8-11
Test of Language constructed, reliable, practical, research-based, and theoretically
Development– Primary: Fifth Edition sound. Professionals can use the TOLD-P:5 to (1) identify children
who are significantly below their peers in oral language proficiency,
(2) determine their specific strengths and weaknesses in oral
language skills, (3) document their progress in remedial programs,
and (4) measure oral language in research studies.
Subtests and Composites
The TOLD-P:5 has six core subtests and three supplemental subtests
which measure various aspects of oral language are described below.
The results of these subtests can be combined to form composite
scores for the major dimensions of language: semantics and grammar;
listening, organizing,
and speaking; and overall language ability.
Core Subtests
Picture Vocabulary - measures a child's understanding of the
meaning of spoken English words (semantics, listening)

Relational Vocabulary - measures a child's understanding and

ability to orally express the relationships between two spoken
 stimulus words (semantics, organizing)
Oral Vocabulary - measures a child's ability to give oral
definitions to common English words that are spoken by the
examiner (semantics, speaking)
Syntactic Understanding - measures a child's ability to
comprehend the meaning of sentences (grammar, listening) 5.
Sentence Imitation - measures a child's ability to imitate
English sentences (grammar, organizing)
Morphological Completion - measures a child's ability to
recognize, understand, and use common English
morphological forms (grammar, speaking)
Supplemental Subtests
Word Discrimination - measures a child's ability to recognize
the differences in significant speech sounds (phonology,
listening)
Word Analysis - measures a child's ability to segment words
into smaller phonemic units (phonology, organizing)
Word Articulation - measures a child's ability to utter
important English speech sounds (phonology, speaking)

TOLD I:5 The TOLD-I:5 assesses spoken language in intermediate-age students. 8-0 to 17-11
Test of Language It is well constructed, reliable, practical, research based, and
Development– Intermediate: Fifth theoretically sound. Professionals can use the TOLD-I:5 to (a) identify
Edition students who are significantly below their peers in oral language
proficiency, (b) determine their specific strengths and weaknesses in
oral language skills, (c) document their progress in remedial programs,
and (d) measure oral language in research studies.
Subtests and Composites
The TOLD-I:5 has six subtests that measure various aspects of oral
language. The results of these subtests can be combined to form
composite scores for the major dimensions of language: semantics
and grammar; listening, organizing, and speaking; and overall
language ability.
Subtests
Sentence Combining – measures the ability to combine two to
five short, simple sentences into one complex or compound
sentence while retaining all the meaning expressed in the
short sentences (grammar, speaking)
Picture Vocabulary – measures the ability to understand the
meanings of spoken two-word phrases (semantics, listening) 3.
Word Ordering – measures the ability to construct a
meaningful sentence from a set of words presented orally in a
random sequence (grammar, organizing)
Relational Vocabulary – measures the ability to identify
the abstract relationship existing among a set of spoken
words (semantics, organizing)
Morphological Comprehension – measures the ability to
recognize ungrammatical spoken sentences (grammar,
listening)
Multiple Meanings – measures the ability to provide
different meanings for spoken stimulus words (semantics,
speaking)
 Normative Scores
The TOLD-I:5 yields four types of normative scores: age equivalents,
percentile ranks, subtest scaled scores, and composite indexes.
Percentiles provide the examiner with an index that is easily understood
by parents and others with whom the test results are to be shared.
Subtest scaled scores are based on a distribution having a mean of 10
and standard deviation of 3. Composite indexes are based on a
distribution having a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15. Age
equivalents are indexes of relative standing that translate subtest raw
scores to what are commonly termed language ages

TELD-4 The TELD-4 is a highly reliable and valid measure of spoken language in 3-0 to 7-11
Test of Early Language children ages 3 years 0 months through 7 years 11 months. Like the
Development– Fourth Edition previous edition, the test yields Receptive Language and Expressive
Language subtest index scores, as well as a Spoken Language index
score. All users now have access to the new optional PC-, Mac-,
Chromebook-, and tablet-compatible TELD-4 Online Scoring and Report
System via activation codes included in each package of TELD-4
Examiner Record Booklets. This system is a quick, efficient tool for (a)
entering test session data; (b) converting subtest item scores or total
raw scores into scaled scores; (c) generating composite index scores,
percentile ranks, and upper and lower confidence intervals; (d)
comparing TELD-4 scores to identify significant intraindividual
differences; and (e) obtaining a score summary or narrative report.

Updated October 1, 2021