preschool language scale fourth edition sandra r. gomes caldwell college
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Assessment Needs
The limitations of preschool assessments have been well documented (McCauley, 2001). Therefore, reliable and valid assessments are needed.
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Summary of Presentation
Background of Preschool Language Scale (PLS) Overview of PLS-4 Test Content & Administration How to score PLS-4 Research supporting the effectiveness of the PLS-4
Pros and Cons
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Background of Preschool Language Scale (PLS)
Developed by Irla Zimmerman, Violette Steiner, and Roberta Pond.Earlier editions
• PLS - Originally developed in 1969 to measure language development of young children
• PLS-R - Clearer administration & simplified scoring system (1979)
• PLS-3 - normative data used to develop standard scores & percentile ranks; reliability & validity information; additional test tasks & supplementary test information (1992)
Current edition• PLS-4 -(2002)
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Overview of PLS-4
Purpose •Standardized & norm referenced
evaluation tool used to assess receptive & expressive language skills
•Determines whether deficiencies are primarily receptive or expressive in nature
•Assesses behaviors considered to be language precursors
Age range•Birth through 6 years, 11 months
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Overview of PLS-4
Test Content•Core Subscales•Supplemental Assessments
Scores •Norm referenced test scores
Qualified Users
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Overview of PLS-4
Standardization DataPLS-4 is standardizedSample included 1564 children
• 39.1% of this sample consists of ethnic minorities
Spanish edition also available with separate norms Task Analysis ChecklistAges 2 days to 6 years 11 months
• Within each age level, approximately 50% of the sample was male and 50% was female.
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Test ContentAuditory Comprehension
AttentionPlayGestureVocabularyConcepts
MorphologySyntaxIntegrative languagePhonological awareness
1. To evaluate how much language a child understands 2. Test tasks on this subscale are considered important precursors for language development for infants and toddlers
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Video Examples
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Test ContentExpressive Communication
Vocal developmentGestureSocial communicationVocabularyConcepts
MorphologySyntaxIntegrative languagePhonological awareness
1. Used to determine how well a child communicates with others.
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Video Examples
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Language SampleChecklist
ArticulationScreener
CaregiverQuestionnaire
SupplementalAssessments
Test Content
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Caregiver Questionnaire
“What Your Child Understands”1. Does your child momentarily look at a person who is
talking to him or her? If yes, who does your child look at?
2. Does your child look at you for more than 2 seconds? If yes, describe a situation when your child does this.
3. Does your child respond to words like “stop” or “wait?”
4. Does your child put toys in his or her mouth?
5. Does your child understand words like “in,” “off,” or “out of?”
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Administration of PLS-4
Examiner’s Manual• Administration, scoring, & interpretation
procedures
Picture Manual• Contains picture stimuli
Record Form• Abbreviated directions for administering,
recording, & scoring test items
Manipulatives• Used to facilitate interactions with the child
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Required Manipulatives
SCAN PAGE
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Administration of PLS-4 Beginning the test session
• Test environment• Determine chronological age
Determine starting point• Basic information about his or her language• Start at least a year prior to child’s age
Task Administration• Can start with either subscale • Generally takes 25-40 minutes, depending on age of
the child and communication skills
Practice Tasks• Included for a number of items on the (AC) and (EC)
subscales
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Administration of PLS-4
Modifying Administration for special populations
• Children with severe developmental delays• Children with severe physical/ hearing/ visual
impairments• Children who communicate using sign language• Children with autism
Accommodations• Use as criterion referenced information only
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Scoring PLS-4
Scores Reported• PLS-4 provides age-based
» Standard scores» Percentile ranks» Age equivalents
Scoring Codes• (E)- Elicited (S) - Spontaneous (C ) - Caregiver
Basal and Ceiling Rules• Basal achieved when child has passed 3
consecutive numbered tasks (Scores of 1 marked in 3 consecutive boxes)
• Ceiling is achieved when the child has earned a score of 0 on 7 consecutive numbered tasks
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Example of correct & incorrect ceiling
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Practice
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Computing Scores
Refer to page 115 Refer to page 117 & 118
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Research Supporting Effectiveness
Restrepo et al. (2001) This study evaluated the validity of the Spanish edition of the PLS-3 Validity is of increasing importance
• Number of Hispanic children increases in schools each year; therefore, the need for reliable, valid measures for this population becomes more urgent (Restrepo et al., 2001).
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Restrepo et al. (2001)Continued
Participants • 37 children (18 boys & 19 girls)• Mean age of 5 years 6 months• All children were bilingual
Compared performances of the same participants on the English and Spanish version of the PLS-3
Concluded that the test was inadequate because it was based on English rather than Spanish Language development data.
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Research Supporting Effectiveness
Qi et al. (2003)Study examined the performance of 701 low-income African American preschoolers (36 to 52 months old)On average, African American children performed about 1 SD below the expected means for their ages on both subscalesIndependent sample t tests showed no significant differences between African American children & a comparison sample of 50 European American children.6 items appeared to be particularly difficult for African American sampleFindings suggest that the PLS-3 is generally an informative language test for African American preschoolers.
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Research Supporting Effectiveness
Zimmerman et al. (2005) PLS-3 & PLS-4 administered to the same children, similar mean and SDs were found which supported the PLS-4 content.PLS-4 differentiated between 44 children identified with autism spectrum disorders and 44 typically developing children. Differences ranged from 36-39 standard score points.
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Zimmerman et al. (2005) Continued
Nonverbal children with autism demonstrated greatest lags on language tasks targeting concepts & social communication.Children who were verbal demonstrated significant difficulties on morphology, syntax, social communication & integrated language skills.In summary, PLS-4 proved to be sensitive to differences in language abilities for children with a variety of diagnoses, including developmental and language delays, autism, & hearing impairment.
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Pros of Assessment Tool
• Test covers a wide range of language issues
• Child friendly• Allows for repeated
administration over the child’s development
• Used extensively by researchers in a broad variety of areas
• Enables clinicians to gain insight into a child’s underlying deficits
• Administration time is fairly brief
• Reliable and valid• Useful tool for evaluating
children with special needs
• Easy to score
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Cons of Assessment Tool
• Does not go into great depth
• Not meant to be used alone to diagnose a language deficit
• Unable to make modifications
• Administration of assessment tool
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Summary
Overall, PLS-4 is a well- designed and carefully developed instrument, meeting a standard of quality substantially above that of most other commercial tests. A user can be quite confident of the accuracy of scores and appropriateness of using PLS-4 scores as indicators of language skills of preschool children. (Zimmerman et. al, 2005)
It is a useful diagnostic and research tool that can be used to identify current comprehension and expressive language skills & can be used to measure changes in language skills over time.
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References
McCauley, R. (2001). Assessment of language disorders in children. Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum Associates.
Qi, C. H., Kaiser, A. P., Milan, S. E., Yzquierdo, Z., & Hancock, T. B., (2003). The performance of Low-Income, African American Children on the Preschool Language Scale-3. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46, 576-590.
Restrepo, M., & Silverman, S. W., (2001). Validity of the Spanish preschool language scale-3 for use with bilingual children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 10, 382-393.
Zimmerman, I. L., & Castilleja, N. F., (2005). The role of language scale for infant and preschool assessment. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 11, 238-246.
Zimmerman, I. L., Steiner, V. G., & Pond R. E., (2002). Preschool Language Scale, 4th edition. San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation.