Speech and language assessment
Common speech and language therapy assessments include:
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:
- TROG - understanding of language
- PVCS - preverbal communication checklist
- Derbyshire picture test - simple understanding
- CELF-4 - a battery of expressive and receptive language tests
- CELF-PS - as above, for Pre-School aged children
- ACE 6-11 - a battery of receptive, expressive and pragmatic language tests
- RAPT - picture naming and grammar/content analysis
- BPVS - a receptive assessment of vocabulary
- 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 test
- Language for Thinking assessment - inferential thinking and understanding
For adults
- PALPA - Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language Processing in Aphasia
- Boston diagnostic battery
- WAB - Western Aphasia Battery
See also
- Language disorder
- List of voice disorders
- Speech disorder
- Speech and language pathology