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. |