About the Measure
Domains | Language |
Subscales | No |
Target Construct | Oral language: Receptive and expressive grammar. |
Description | A Speech and Language Toolkit for Screening and Intervention in the Early Years: Revised Edition plays a crucial role in identifying children with potential language difficulties and offers a range of customised intervention activities to help support their language development. |
Test Authors | Hurd, A., McQueen, D., Sandwell Primary Care Trust |
Publisher | GL Assessments (2010) |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
Respondent | Child |
Prior knowledge Required | Early Years Practitioners, SENCOs, Teaching Assistants, Nursery Workers and Speech and Language Therapists |
Scoring | Clear, objective and transparent |
Time | 10 to 15 minutes |
Age | 6 months to 6 years |
Psychometric details
UK norms | YES |
Norm / Criterion referenced | Norm referenced |
Standardisation sample | 7000 |
Reliability | Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate |
Criterion validity | Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate |
Construct validity | Wellcomm showed good levels of sensitivity and borderline acceptable levels of specificity discriminating typically developing children from those delayed. |
Concurrent validity | Concurrent validity with RDLS III .89 Wellcomm correlates with PLS-4 auditory. |