Language assessment measures

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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 proficiency measures
• Neuropsychological assessment of aphasia