The Preschool Language Scales-5 Spanish Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators (PLS™-5 Spanish Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators) helps screen a broad spectrum of speech and language skills for Spanish speaking children. Designed specifically for early childhood specialists, the test uses terminology describing language skills that is familiar to early childhood educators, occupational therapists, and psychologists who screen Spanish speaking children birth through age 6:11.
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Preschool Language Scales-5 Spanish Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators
PLS-5 Spanish Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators
The Preschool Language Scales-5 Spanish Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators (PLS™-5 Spanish Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators) helps screen a broad spectrum of speech and language skills for Spanish speaking children. Designed specifically for early childhood specialists, the test uses terminology describing language skills that is familiar to early childhood educators, occupational therapists, and psychologists who screen Spanish speaking children birth through age 6:11.Overview
Ordering
Product Details
- Publication date:
- 2015
- Age range:
- Birth-6:11
- Scores/interpretation:
- Pass/fail scores—emerging interaction and language and speech skills in infants and toddlers; pass/fail scores for articulation, language, social/interpersonal communication skills, stuttering, and voice for children ages 3:0 to 6:11.
- Qualification level:
- B
- Completion time:
- 5-10 minutes
- Administration:
- Examiner interaction and verbal response to stimulus pictures
- Scoring options:
- Manual scoring
To order the Speech and Language version of this test, see the PLS-5 Spanish Screening Test.
The PLS-5 Spanish Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators can be used to screen children ages 3 to 6:11 in such areas as language, articulation, connected speech, communication skills, stuttering and voice.
Benefits
- Conduct infant, preschool, or kindergarten language screenings of emerging developmental communication skills.
- Identify children who need to be referred to an SLP for further speech or language assessment.
- Screen emerging interpersonal, communication, and feeding skills for children birth through 2:11.
- Train paraprofessionals or teacher’s aides to screen speech and language skills with the tool.
Features
PLS-5 Spanish is designed especially for early childhood educators, with separate kits for age groups 0 to 3 and 3 to 6.
If the SLP uses PLS-5 Spanish as the follow-up diagnostic measure, review the child's responses with the SLP to determine if the scores can be transferred from the PLS-5 Spanish Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators Record Form to the PLS-5 Spanish Record Form.
- Includes stimulus pages, administration and scoring directions, and technical information in one compact manual, simplifying administration.
- Ideal for programs serving infant, toddler, and preschool-age dual language learners.
- Engaging for children, and easy to administer and score for the examiner.
- No manipulatives needed for children ages 3:0 to 6:11. For infants and toddlers, collect materials from toys and objects easily found within the child's environment.
- Addresses Head Start performance standards for assessing dual language learners.
Resources
The following materials and case studies are available
