SPELT-3: Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test - Third Edition

Ages 4-0 through 9-11 years
Testing time: 15 to 25 minutes

The SPELT-3 measures a child’s generation of specific morphologic and syntactic structures. It elicits responses from a child through structured visual and auditory stimuli. Each test item includes a visual stimulus that is a full color photograph of an everyday situation or activity.

Individual test items assess the child’s use of MORPHOLOGY (preposition, plural, possessive noun and pronoun, reflexive pronoun, subject pronoun, direct/indirect object, present possessive noun and pronoun, reflexive pronoun, subject pronoun, direct/indirect object, present progressive aspect, regular and irregular past tense, modal auxiliaries, contractible/uncontractible copula, and contractible/uncontractible auxiliary) and SYNTACTIC structures (negative, conjoined sentences, wh question, interrogative reversal, negative infinitive phrase, propositional complement, relative clause, and front/center embedded clause).

Complete kit includes Test Manual, Photographic Stimulus Book, 50 Response Forms, all in a sturdy storage box.

Features:

• 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.
• Fifty-four 4" x 6" real life color photos in an album provide larger improved stimulus pictures.
• Morphological and syntactical structures have been added such as “wh” clause, relative clause, front embedded clause, and propositional complement.
• Reliability and validity studies are reported.