Probe a child’s ability to generate early developing morphological and syntactic forms with the SPELT-P2. This new edition includes an expanded discussion of test scoring, test interpretation, and the standardization procedures.
Test Structure:
The SPELT-P2 includes 44 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. This new edition targets 40 items using 44 photographs to probe the young child's ability to generate early developing morphological and syntactical forms. The child's strengths and weaknesses can be readily identified.
Target Structures:
• Prepositions
• Copulas
• "WH" Question
• Articles
• Present Participles
• Interrogative Reversal
• Plurals
• Past Tense
• Infinitive phrase
• Possessive Nouns/Pronouns
• Third Person Markers
• Propositional Complement
• Subject Pronouns
• Negatives
• Relative Clause
• Auxiliary Verbs
• Conjoined Sentence
• Front Embedded Clause
Technical Information:
Standard scores, confidence intervals, percentile ranks, percentile bands and test-age equivalents are provided for females and males, ages 3-0 through 5-11. Normative tables are based on a national sample of over 1700 children from the four geographical areas specified by the U.S. Census Bureau. A new chapter on African American English and scoring guide are provided by Nola T. Radford, PhD. New reliability and validity studies are reported.
The SPELT-P2 Complete Kit includes:
• Manual
• Photographic Stimulus B
(SPELT-P2) Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test
Janet Dawson / Connie Stout / Julia Eyer / Pat Tattersall / Jan Fonkalsrud / Karen Croleyr
Ages: 3.0 through 5.11 years
Administration: Individual; 15-20 minutes
Preschool 2
