The SPELT-3 Complete Kit includes:
• Manual
• Photographic Stimulus Book
• Response Forms (50)
(SPELT-3) Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test
Leslie Anne Perry / Bradley T. Erford
By giving speech-language pathologists a systematic way to sample specific language forms, the SPELT-3 targets the assessment of morphology and syntax (morphosyntax) skills in children.
Test Structure:
The SPELT-3 includes 54 full color photographs of everyday situations and objects paired with simple verbal questions and statements to elicit specific morphological and syntactical structures. It allows for analysis of specific language structures that may not occur in spontaneous language samples. The child’s strengths and weaknesses can be readily identified.
Items Assess:
• Morphology: plurals, possessive nouns, verb tense endings
• Verb Form present progressive, regular and irregular past, future, contractible/uncontractible
copula, contractible/uncontractible auxiliary
• Pronoun Usage: subject pronoun, possessive pronoun, reflexive pronoun
• Syntax: negative, conjoined sentence, “Wh” question, interrogative reversal, negative infinitive phrase, propositional complement, relative clause, and front embedded clause.
Technical Information:
Standard scores, confidence intervals, percentile ranks, percentile bands and test-age equivalents are provided for females and males, ages 4 through 9-11. Normative tables are based on a national sample of over 1800 children from the four geographical areas specified by the U.S. Census Bureau. A chapter on the technical qualities of the SPELT®-3 standardization sample scores is provided by Laura Barnes, PhD. Reliability and validity studies are reported.
Ages: 4.0 through 9.11 years
Administration: Individual; 15-20 minutes
Third Edition
