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Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool-3

(CELF Preschool-3)
Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals® Preschool-3 (CELF® Preschool-3) assesses aspects of language necessary for preschool children to meet the language demands of the classroom.
Age range:

3:0 to 6:11

Publication date:
2020. Q-global and Q-interactive scoring will be available in late 2020.

Qualification level:

B

Qualification Level

 

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Level B

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Level C

This approval level enables you to buy all our assessments.

Completion time:

Level 1: 15-20 minutes. Entire test: variable

Administration:

Verbal response to stimulus picture

Scores/Interpretation:

Core language score; receptive and expressive language index scores; expressive language, language content, and language structure index scores; standard scores, percentile ranks, age equivalents, and growth scores.

Scoring options:

Q-interactive® Web-based Administration and Scoring, Q-global™ Scoring & Reporting or Manual Scoring

Norms:

700 preschool-age children ages 3:0 to 6:11

Other languages:

See CELF Preschool-2 Spanish

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool-3

Pricing & Ordering

CELF Preschool-3 paper and Q-global digital kits are now available! Q-interactive and Q-global digital options will be available in late fall 2020.

CELF-Preschool-3 Screening Test (and any of the combo kits with the Screening Test) will ship and be invoiced in early to mid September, 2020.

 

  • CELF Preschool-3 Q-global (Digital) Kit/CELF Preschool-3 Screening Test Kit Combo (Print)

    A103000191825

    CELF Preschool-3 Q-global (digital) Kit includes digital manual, stimulus book, and No Juice book, print No Juice book, and print record forms (25) and Pragmatics Profile and Preliteracy Forms (25); CELF Preschool Screening Test Kit (print) includes print manual (with administration directions, stimulus book and technical information) and record forms (25)

    Pricing and Qualification

    Price: $458.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Q-global (Digital) Kit with Print Record Forms

    A103000185024

    Includes digital manual, stimulus book, and No Juice book, print No Juice book, and print record forms (25) and Pragmatics Profile and Preliteracy Forms (25).

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    Price: $359.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Q-global Kit (Digital)/PLS-5 Complete Kit with Manipulatives (Print)

    A103000185029

    CELF Preschool-3 Q-global (Digital) Kit includes digital manual, stimulus book, and No Juice book, print No Juice book, and print record forms (25) and Pragmatics Profile and Preliteracy Forms (25) and PLS-5 Kit with Manipulatives - print (includes print examiner's manual, administration and scoring manual, picture manual, Home Communication Questionnaire (25) and record forms (15), and complete manipulatives kit. Complete manipulatives kit does not include bubbles with wand, sheet of paper, metal keys on a ring, watch with a second hand, or sealable plastic bags.

    WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

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    Price: $733.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 and CELF Preschool-3 Screening Test Q-global Combo Kit (Digital)

    A103000185031

    Includes CELF Preschool-3 Q-global (digital) Kit includes digital manual, stimulus book, and No Juice book, print No Juice book, and print record forms (25) and Pragmatics Profile and Preliteracy Forms (25); CELF Preschool Screening Test Kit (digital) includes digital manual (with administration directions, stimulus book and technical information) and print record forms (25)

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    Price: $458.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Complete Kit (Print)

    A103000185042

    Print Kit includes Manual, Stimulus Book, No Juice book, Record Forms (pkg. of 25), Pragmatics Profile and Preliteracy (Print) PAD -25

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    Price: $399.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 /CELF Preschool-3 Screening Test Combo Kit (Print)

    A103000185030

    Includes CELF Preschool-3 Complete Kit - print (includes print manual, stimulus book, No Juice book, record forms (25), and Pragmatics Profile/Preliteracy Forms (25) and CELF Preschool-3 Screening Kit - print (includes CELF Preschool-3 Screening Print Manual (with administration directions, stimulus book, and technical information) and print record forms (25)

    Pricing and Qualification

    Price: $458.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 (Print)/PLS-5 Basic Kit (Print) Combo

    A103000185026

    Includes CELF Preschool-3 Complete Kit - print (includes print manual, stimulus book, No Juice book, record forms (25), and Pragmatics Profile/Preliteracy Forms (25) and PLS-5 Basic Kit - print (includes print examiner's manual, administration and soring manual, picture manual, Home Communication Questionnaire (25) and record forms (15)

    Pricing and Qualification

    Price: $665.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Kit/PLS-5 Kit with Manipulatives (Print) Combo

    A103000185028

    Includes CELF Preschool-3 Complete Kit - print (includes print manual, stimulus book, No Juice book, record forms (25), and Pragmatics Profile/Preliteracy Forms (25) and PLS-5 Kit with Manipulatives - print (includes print examiner's manual, administration and soring manual, picture manual, Home Communication Questionnaire (25) and record forms (15), and complete manipulatives kit. Complete manipulatives kit does not include bubbles with wand, sheet of paper, metal keys on a ring, watch with a second hand, or sealable plastic bags.

    WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

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    Price: $733.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Q-global Score Report (Digital)

    A103000185753

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    Price: $1.05

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Scoring with Score Report 1-year Subscription

    A103000191826

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    Price: $40.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Scoring with Score Report 3-year Subscription

    A103000191827

    Pricing and Qualification

    Price: $110.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Scoring with Score Report 5-year Subscription

    A103000191828

    Pricing and Qualification

    Price: $165.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Record Forms

    A103000185747

    Pkg. of 25

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    Price: $75.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Pragmatics Profile and PreLiteracy Forms (Print) PAD-25

    A103000186265

    Pad of 50

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    Price: $31.50

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Manual (Print)

    A103000185053

    Print Manual

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    Price: $99.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Q-Global Manual (Digital)

    A103000185749

    Digital Manual

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    Price: $99.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Q-Global Stimulus Book (Digital)

    A103000190980

    Digital Stimulus Book

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    Price: $278.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Q-global No Juice Book (Digital)

    A103000185748

    Digital No Juice book

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    Price: $35.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 Stimulus Book (Print)

    A103000185055

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    Price: $278.00

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  • CELF Preschool-3 No Juice Book (Print)

    A103000185056

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    Price: $35.00

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Product Details

STAY IN THE KNOW! Request to 'stay in the know' and we'll provide valuable updates on this new assessment throughout 2020!

The new CELF-Preschool-3 is now available!

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals® Preschool-3 (CELF® Preschool-3) enables you to assess the language skills that are the building blocks needed for success in the classroom. This new edition includes everything you loved about the CELF-Preschool-2, plus more enhancements that benefit you and the children you test!

What's changed? CELF Preschool-3 features all of the benefits of CELF®-Preschool-2 plus:

  • Updated norms, test items and art
  • Digital options using Q-global® (digital kits available now) or Q-interactive® (coming late fall 2020)
  • New connected Speech subtest and Pragmatics Activities Checklist
  • Two new index scores help you determine if a child has the language skills needed to transition to the classroom
    • Academic Language Readiness index
    • Emerging Literacy index

Test Content

Subtests with scaled scores:

  • Sentence Comprehension
  • Word Structure
  • Expressive Vocabulary
  • Following Directions
  • Recalling Sentences
  • Basic Concepts
  • Word Classes
  • Phonological Awareness
  • Descriptive Pragmatics Profile
  • Emerging Literacy Rating Scale

Subtests with criterion score and/or descriptive information:

  • Connected Speech Sample
  • Pragmatic Activities Checklist

Scores

Subtest and Index scaled scores, percentile ranks, age equivalents, and growth scale values

  • Core Language Score
  • Receptive Language Index
  • Expressive Language Index
  • Language Content Index
  • Language Structure Index
  • Academic Language Readiness Index
  • Emerging Literacy Index
 

Resources

The following resources are available for CELF Preschool-3

 

FAQs

Test Content

Did you change the pictures of the telephone and get rid of the calculator and newspaper?​

Yes, all of those are deleted from the new test.​

The standardization version looks a lot like the CELF Preschool-2. What is new?​

  • Updated test items (no more calculator, stamps, or newspaper) and new normative data​
  • New digital test administration options (via Q-g and Q-i) for face-to-face administration and telepractice.​
  • New supplemental subtests (Connected Speech and Pragmatics Activities Checklist)​
  • New index scores: Academic Language index and Emerging Literacy index
  • New screening test and digital scoring (sold separately)​

CELF Preschool-2 did not provide much of an opportunity to obtain information about spontaneous speech? Is CELF Preschool-3 the same?​

The new test includes a Connected Speech subtest using a story retell format. Use the No Juice! book to tell the child the story, then ask him or her to retell the story. Compare the morphosyntactic forms used in the Connected Speech sample to those on the Word Structure subtests.​

What are the two digital options offered for CELF Preschool-3?
What am I buying?

Q-global

Q-interactive

A digital kit, which includes

  • A digital Manual, a digital Stimulus Book and paper Record Forms (25). All the digital materials are housed on the Q-global platform in the Resource Library
  • Download and print the Administration Directions.
  • Display stimulus pictures on a web-enabled tablet or computer.
  • Write responses on a record form.
  • Purchase scoring separately or hand-score the examinee's responses
  • There is no license fee

A yearly license fee per user provides access to all the speech and language tests on the platform. These include: CELF-5, PPVT-5, EVT-3, GFTA-3, GFTA-3 Spanish, KLPA-3, CELF Preschool-3 (when published.)

  • The tests run on two iPads connected by Bluetooth (one iPad for the examiner; one for the examinee)
  • The examiner iPad provides the test stimuli you say to the examinee and correct responses; the examinee sees the test stimuli on his or her iPad. At the end of a subtest, the test scores are provided automatically as well as a score report.​
  • Pay $1.50 per subtest in a test battery; $4.50 for single subtest tests and GFTA-3. Administration, scoring, and reporting are seamless and integrated-you can obtain test scores and a score report at the completion of testing.​
What equipment do I need?

Q-global

Q-interactive

  • Face-to- face test administration: Any web-enabled tablet or computer​
  • Telepractice (remote administration): computer with teleconferencing application (secure transmission with encryption, i.e, AdobeConnect) ​
  • Face-to-face test administration: Two iPads*​
  • Telepractice (remote administration):
    • two iPads with a mirroring app
    • a computer with a secure teleconferencing application
Do I need internet access?​

Q-global

Q-interactive

YesYes, to set up the assessment protocol you want to use. Once the test is uploaded to your iPads, you do not need internet access to administer tests​.
Using either platform…

You control the testing pace and presentation of test stimuli. ​

 

Will the CELF Preschool-3 Screening Test also be available as a digital assessment?​

It will be available on Q-global, but not on Q-interactive.

What if I am a Q-interactive user with a Standard or Speech license?​

CELF Preschool-3 will automatically appear on Standard and Speech licenses after publication. Scoring and reporting options will also appear in your Q-global account.

Use Cases

Do I have to administer a CELF Preschool-3 Screening before I use the CELF Preschool-3?​

That is up to you, and depends on the requirements or limitations at your work setting. If you conduct mass screenings, one advantage to using the CELF Preschool-3 Screening Test if you plan to follow up with the child by administering CELF Preschool-3 is that you can take the examinee's responses from the Screening and write them (or just the scores) on the CELF Preschool-3 protocol and skip those questions during the test administration (so the child does not have to take the items twice). But you can certainly choose to use any screening tool before administering the CELF Preschool-3. ​

What if I used a PLS-5 Screening Test to screen? Can I follow up with CELF Preschool-3?​

You can certainly follow up with any diagnostic assessment after using a PLS-5 Screening protocol. However, if you use an assessment other than CELF Preschool-3, you would not be able to transfer responses from the screening test.
 

Webinars

The following training events are available for CELF Preschool-3.

 

 

Related items

CELF Preschool-3 Screening Test Manual

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool-3 Screening Test