(SLDT-A:NU) Social Language Development Test - Adolescent
Ages: 12 through 17
Administration: Individual
COMPLETE SLDT-A: NU KIT INCLUDES:
Examiner's Manual, Scoring Standards and Example Responses Book, Picture Book, and 25 Examiner Record Booklets, all in a sturdy storage box.
The SLDT-A: NU measures language-based social skills including students' ability to make inferences and interpret and respond to social interaction. Performance on the test differentiates typically developing students from those with autism spectrum disorder.
• Updated age-stratified normative data (N = 868) reflect demographics of the 2016 U.S.
Census relative to geographic region, gender, race, and ethnicity.
• New item analysis and item bias studies provide convincing evidence of content description validity.
• Features a new standard score metric for subtests and composites (M = 10, SD = 3; M =
100, SD = 15).
• New reliability and validity studies include diagnostic accuracy analyses, which are considered the most rigorous techniques for establishing validity.
• Audio files for the Interpreting Ironic Statements subtest are now available for online use or download.
(SLDT-E:NU) Social Language Development Test - Elementary
Ages: 6-11 years
Grades: 1-6
Administration: Individual; 45 minutes
The SLDT-E: NU assesses language-based skills of social interpretation and interaction with friends, the skills found to be most predictive of social language development.
• Measures the language required to appropriately infer and express what another person is thinking or feeling within a social context, to make multiple interpretations, to take mutual perspectives, and to negotiate with and support peers.
• Reflects the developmental refinement of social language comprehension and expression.
• Differentiates typically developing children from those with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD).
• Includes updated normative data, new standard score metrics, new item analysis, and
new item bias studies.
COMPLETE SLDT-E: NU KIT INCLUDES:
Examiner's Manual, Scoring Standards and Example Responses Book, Picture Book, and 25 Examiner Record Booklets, all in a sturdy storage box.
User Qualifications Required ... See Order Form Here
Linda Bowers, MA, SLP, Rosemary Huisingh, MA, SLP, and Carolyn LoGiudice, MA, CCC-SLP
Linda Bowers / Rosemary Huisingh / Carolyn LoGuidice