Preschool Language Scales | Fifth Edition Spanish is an interactive assessment that captures bilingual children’s language skills in a single score. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.
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Preschool Language Scales | Fifth Edition Spanish
PLS-5 Spanish
Preschool Language Scales | Fifth Edition Spanish is an interactive assessment that captures bilingual children’s language skills in a single score. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.Overview
Product Details
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- Publication date:
- 2012
- Age range:
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Birth–7:11
- Scores/interpretation:
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Total language, auditory comprehension, expressive communication, standard scores, percentile ranks, language age equivalents
- Qualification level:
- B
- Completion time:
- 20-45 minutes (Spanish Administration Only); 20-65 minutes (Dual Language Administration)
- Administration:
- Examiner interaction and verbal response to object and picture stimuli
- Scoring options:
- Manual scoring
- Telepractice:
- Guidance on using this test in your telepractice
Previously, tests were administered separately in English and in Spanish to obtain information about a bilingual child’s skills. Both scores were often low, due to the child acquiring some skills in each language.
PLS-5 Spanish enables capture of the child’s Spanish and English skills in one score for more reliable assessment.
Benefits
- Capture bilingual-conceptual language scores for Auditory Comprehension and Expressive Communication, plus a Total Language score.
- Use the same manipulatives kit as the PLS-5 English edition. Spanish storybooks can be ordered separately.
Features
No longer risk underestimating the child’s abilities when testing only in Spanish or only in English.
- Stimulus pages, administration and scoring directions, and technical information are all included in one compact manual, simplifying administration.
- Record forms are available in tear-off pads.
- No manipulatives are needed for children ages 3:0 through 7:1.
- Paraprofessionals or teacher’s aides can be trained to screen speech and language skills using this tool.
- Normed with 1,150 monolingual and bilingual Spanish-speaking children in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Resources
The following resources are available for PLS-5
The following webinars are available for PLS-5.

