TECEL: Test of Early Communication and Emerging Language

Ages: 2 weeks to 24 months (standard scores, percentiles, and age equivalents); older children, adolescents and adults who have language delays (age equivalents only)
Testing Time: 15 to 45 minutes
Administration: individual observation and/or parent/caregiver interview

Provides a theoretically sound, research-based measure of early communication and emerging language. The test can be used to assess communication and language strengths and weaknesses, design intervention plans, and predict future language development. It can be administered to both verbal and nonverbal children, including those who communicate by means other than speech.

Use to assess and chart communication and design intervention plans, make estimates about future language development, and serve as a research tool for investigating early communication and emerging language.

Each item on the test is color-coded to indicate whether it measures receptive or expressive language skills. A score of 1 is given for each correct response, a score of 0 for each incorrect response. Item points are totaled to arrive at a raw score, which is then converted to three normative scores: percentile rank, age equivalent, and a standard index score. The child's performance is also described as falling into one of seven categories, ranging from "Very Poor" to "Very Superior."

Features:

• Includes both receptive and expressive color coded items for easy diagnostic analysis of results.
• Flexible administration options include Interview, Observation, and/or a combination of both.
• Recognizes the continuum from pre-linguistic communication behaviors to symbolic forms in emerging language.
• Can be administered to verbal and nonverbal respondents and is suitable for assessing individuals who communicate by means other than speech.
• Test materials and interview questions are designed to be cross-cultural in content, free of jargon or difficult to understand concepts, and are appropriate for all ages.
• The Informal Assessment and Intervention Plan guides clinicians in analyzing performance on the test, developing recommendations, and generating an Intervention Plan.
• The manual includes case examples.
• The kit contains all necessary art and objects to administer the test.
• All pictures are drawn in full color for an appealing look and laminated for durability.
• All objects have been tested for choke hazard and certified non-toxic.

Complete kit includes Examiner's Manual, Pictures Plates, 25 Examiner Record Booklets, 25 Informal Assessment and Intervention Plans and an Object Kit, all in a sturdy storage box.