The Children’s Communication Checklist-2 U.S. Edition is a parent or caregiver rating scale based on the extensive research of author, Dr. Dorothy Bishop. CCC-2 helps rate aspects of communication, screens for general language, and identifies pragmatic language impairment.
The CCC-2 scoring Excel can be downloaded from the Resources tab below.Children's Communication Checklist-2 | U.S. Edition
CCC-2
The Children’s Communication Checklist-2 U.S. Edition is a parent or caregiver rating scale based on the extensive research of author, Dr. Dorothy Bishop. CCC-2 helps rate aspects of communication, screens for general language, and identifies pragmatic language impairment.
The CCC-2 scoring Excel can be downloaded from the Resources tab below.- Publication date:
- 2006
- Age range:
- 4:0-16:11 years
- Scores/interpretation:
-
Norm-referenced; Scores include scaled scores, percentile ranks, confidence intervals, composite score, and index score.
- Qualification level:
- B
- Completion time:
- 5-10 minutes
- Scoring options:
- Computerized- 5 minutes; Manual Score - 15 minutes
CCC-2 is a 70-item questionnaire that rates a child’s communication skills to determine if further testing is required.
Benefits
- Rate speech, vocabulary, sentence structure, and social language skills of children and adolescents who speak in sentences.
- Screen for general language impairments confidently.
- Identify children with pragmatic language impairment.
- Determine if children who may benefit from further assessment for autism spectrum disorder.
- Incorporate into longitudinal studies.
Features
CCC-2 can be used to detect deficits not identified by other communication assessments. It includes two domains: language and pragmatics.
- Language: Speech, Syntax, Semantics, Coherence
- Pragmatics: Initiation, Scripted Language, Context, Nonverbal Communication, Social Relations, Interests

The following resources are available for CCC-2.
Please note:The CCC‑2 Excel scoring file was developed for earlier versions of Microsoft Excel and may not perform reliably in current versions. If you encounter issues, you can continue to score the assessment manually using the scoring worksheet.
The following training events are available for CCC-2.