Test Review: Bayley-III
While using they Bayley III, scores should not be calculated or used to diagnose speech and/or language delay/disorder or to determine special education services.
Test Review: PLS-5 English
The PLS-5 is designed for use with children aged birth through 7;11 to assess language development and only be used to probe for information and not to identify a disorder or disability.
Test Review: PLS-5 Spanish
The PLS-5 Spanish is designed to determine the presence and severity of a receptive, expressive, or receptive-expressive language delay or disorder and only be used to probe for information and not to identify a disorder or disability.
Test Review: CELF-4
The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Fourth Edition (CELF-4) is a standardized test designed to assess the presence of a language disorder or delay and should only be used to probe for information and not to identify a disorder or disability.
Test Resource Guide: Volume VII- Assessment of Cognition and Affect
This resource consists of reviews of standardized measures of cognition and affect that may be used to provide information for determining eligibility for special education and for planning the education of students who have an educational disability.
Appropriate Assessment Procedures- Part 2 (PDE: Module 13)
This module examines different sources of bias that are present in commonly used standardized language tests.
How do we Know a Disability Exists? (PDE: Module 27)
This module explains that the administrator must be able to “see” that the child has a disability, based on the data and examples included in the evaluation.
Guidelines for NYSED Preschool Evaluations June 2013
This memo outlines current issues in the speech and language evaluation process in New York.
(Olswang, Rodriguez, & Timler, 1998) Recommending Intervention for Toddlers With Specific Language Learning Difficulties: We May Not Have All the Answers, But We Know a Lot
This review analyzed the literature available at the time in order to compile characteristics that would enable early intervention (EI) providers to distinguish between children who are “late talkers” but will likely catch up to their peers without therapy (as the majority do) and those who truly have a language disorder.
(Vance & Plante, 1994) Selection of Preschool Language Tests: A Data-Based Approach
This article demonstrated that despite the 10 years that had passed between the publication of McCauley and Swisher (1984) and this article, the vast majority of commercially available norm-referenced tests did not provide psychometric measures deemed necessary in order to establish a test as valid.
