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Standardized SLP Assessments

Reference guide for 12 standardized speech-language assessments — scoring, age ranges, domains, and clinical applications.

Comprehensive language

CELF-5

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, Fifth Edition

CELF-5 is the most widely used comprehensive language battery in school-age SLP practice, covering receptive and expressive language from kindergarten through age 21.

View details CASL-2

Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, Second Edition

CASL-2 is a flexible comprehensive language battery that lets clinicians assemble a tailored assessment from 14 subtests across lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic domains.

View details TOLD-P:5

Test of Language Development - Primary, Fifth Edition

TOLD-P:5 is the comprehensive language battery for the early elementary range, valued for strong sentence-level grammar subtests and competitive psychometrics.

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Oral and Written Language Scales, Second Edition

OWLS-II is a four-scale comprehensive language battery covering listening comprehension, oral expression, reading comprehension, and written expression on a single normative scale.

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Early language

PLS-5

Preschool Language Scales, Fifth Edition

PLS-5 is the dominant standardized language assessment for birth through age seven, used heavily in early intervention eligibility decisions.

View details REEL-4

Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Test, Fourth Edition

REEL-4 is the standardized caregiver-report assessment of emergent language for birth through age three, used heavily in early intervention to document language status before expressive sampling is feasible.

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Vocabulary

PPVT-5

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fifth Edition

PPVT-5 is the gold-standard receptive vocabulary measure across the lifespan, requiring only a four-picture pointing response and yielding a single standard score in about ten minutes.

View details EVT-3

Expressive Vocabulary Test, Third Edition

EVT-3 is the standard expressive single-word vocabulary measure, co-normed with PPVT-5 for direct receptive-versus-expressive vocabulary comparison.

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Articulation/phonology

GFTA-3

Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation, Third Edition

GFTA-3 is the most widely used standardized articulation test in U.S. SLP practice, eliciting target consonants in initial, medial, and final word positions through picture naming.

View details KLPA-3

Khan-Lewis Phonological Analysis, Third Edition

KLPA-3 is the phonological process analysis tool co-normed with GFTA-3, scoring the same word list for ten common phonological processes from a single administration.

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Phonological processing

CTOPP-2

Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, Second Edition

CTOPP-2 is the standard assessment of phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming, used heavily in dyslexia identification and reading-disability evaluation.

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Expressive language

SPELT-3

Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test, Third Edition

SPELT-3 is the most clinically sensitive single-task expressive language assessment for identifying DLD in the four-to-nine age range, eliciting target morphology and syntax through photographs.

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