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A large number of language assessment measures have been developed to measure various aspects of language ability and language proficiency. These include:-
Batteries[]
- Boston diagnostic battery
- Western Aphasia Battery - WAB
Individual Speech and Language measures[]
- Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale
- Assessing Semantic Skill through Everyday Themes
- Assessment of Literacy and Language
- Auditory Processing Abilities Test
- Bankson Language Test
- Bankson-Bernthal Test of Phonology
- Boehm Test of Basic Concepts
- Bracken Basic Concept Scale
- California Verbal Learning Test
- Carolina Picture Vocabulary Test for Deaf and Hearing Impaired
- Children’s Communication Checklist
- Clinical Assessment of Articulation and Phonology
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals
- Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language
- Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test
- Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing
- Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation
- Evaluation of Acquired Skills in Communication
- Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test
- Expressive Vocabulary Test
- Fisher-Logemann Test of Articulation
- Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation
- Hodson Assessment of Phonological Patterns
- Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities
- Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children
- Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis
- Language Processing Test
- Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test
- Modern Language Aptitude Test
- Oral and Written Language Scales
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
- Photo Articulation Test
- Pragmatic Language Skills Inventory
- Preschool Language Assessment Instrument
- Preschool Language Scale
- Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language Processing in Aphasia- PALPA
- Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test
- Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Test
- Reynell Developmental Language Scales - RDLS
- Rosner’s Test of Auditory Analysis Skills
- SCAN-A: A Test for Auditory Processing Disorders in Adolescents and Adults
- SCAN-C: A Test for Auditory Processing Disorders in Children
- Screening Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language
- Secord Contextual Articulation Tests
- Structured Photographic Articulation Test
- Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test
- Stuttering Severity Instrument for Children and Adults
- Systematic Assessment of Voice
- Test of Pragmatic Language
- Test of Phonological Awareness
- Test of Narrative Language
- Test of Minimal Articulation Competence Pearson Assessments Speech and Language
- Test of Language Development
- Test of Early Language Development
- Test of Auditory-Perceptual Skills
- Test of Auditory Processing Skills
- Test of Auditory Comprehension of Language
- Test of Aided-Communication Symbol Performance
- Test of Adolescent/Adult Word Finding
- Test of Adolescent and Adult Language
- Test for Examining Expressive Morphology
- Test of Semantic Skills
- Test of Word Finding
- Test of Word Knowledge
- The Expressive Language Test
- The Fullerton Language Test for Adolescents
- The HELP Test
- The Listening Comprehension Test
- The Listening Test
- The Nonspeech Test
- The Phonological Awareness Test
- The Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale
- The WORD Test
- Token Test for Children
- Utah Test of Language Development
- Verbal Motor Production Assessment for Children
- Weiss Comprehensive Articulation Test
- Wepman’s Auditory Discrimination Test
- Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery
- Woodcock-Muoz Language Survey
For children[]
Many assessments exist for investigating children's language. Here is a selection of commonly used assessments by speech and language therapy services in the UK:
- BPVS - a receptive assessment of vocabulary
- TROG - understanding of language (grammar)
- PVCS - preverbal communication checklist
- Derbyshire picture test - simple understanding
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-4): Assesses receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language.
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals: Pre-School (CELF-P): Assesses receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language skills in Pre-School aged children.
- ACE 6-11 - a battery of receptive, expressive and pragmatic language tests
- RAPT - picture naming and grammar/content analysis
- RWFVS - Picture naming/vocabulary test
- STASS - expressive grammar
- The Bus Story Test - early narrative assessment
- CLEAR - phonology screening assessment
- STAP - expressive phonology
- DEAP - expressive phonology
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
- Language for Thinking assessment - inferential thinking and understanding
See also[]
- Language disorder
- Language proficiency measures
- List of voice disorders
- Neuropsychological assessment of aphasia
- Speech disorder
- Speech and language pathology