PLS-5: Preschool Language Scale Record Forms (pkg/25)

The Preschool Language Scale, Fifth Edition UK (PLS-5UK) is an instrument designed for the assessment of developmental language skills in infants and young children from birth through age 7:11. It helps clinicians and educational professionals gain a comprehensive understanding of both pre-verbal communication and emerging language and literacy skills.

This tool provides professional teams with a framework that facilitates early language development assessment and allows them to tailor interventions and support strategies based on a child’s communication profile.

Benefits:

• Streamlined Administration: Minimised task transitions and grouped manipulatives make test sessions more efficient and child-friendly.

• Improved Test Items: Approximately 25% of the items are new and 50% modified based on expert and clinician feedback to better elicit target responses.

• Expanded Age Range: Now assess language skills up to age 7:11, covering critical early literacy and communication milestones.

• Growth Tracking: Includes Growth Scale Values to monitor progress across repeated administrations.

Key Features:

• Updated Articulation Screener: Tests multiple phonemes with picture stimuli in under 2 minutes.

• Play-Based and Structured Tasks: Assess interaction, vocal/gestural behavior, and play for children birth to age 2:11.

• Home-to-Test Link: Connect Home Communication Questionnaire data to formal test tasks.

• Child Engagement: Large, colorful Picture Manual and plastic, easily sanitized manipulatives, including Mr. Bear, enhance interaction.