Preschool Language Scales-5 Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators

PLS-5

Irla Lee Zimmerman, PhD, Violette G. Steiner, BS, Roberta Evatt Pond, MA

The Preschool Language Scales-5 Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators (PLS™-5 Screening Test for Early Childhood Educators) helps screen a broad spectrum of speech and language skills for 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 children birth through age 6:11.

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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 Additional information

Completion time: 5-10 minutes

Administration: Examiner interaction and verbal response to stimulus pictures

Scoring options: Manual Scoring

The Preschool Language Scales-5 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. The PLS-5 also enables screening of emerging interpersonal, communication, and feeding skills for children birth through 2:11.

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.
Simplify administration, with stimulus pages, administration and scoring directions, and technical information all in one compact manual.
Address newly-proposed Head Start performance standards for assessing dual language learners.

Features

PLS-5 is designed especially for early childhood education, with separate kits for age groups 0–3 and 3–6.

If an SLP uses PLS-5 as the follow-up diagnostic language measure, there's no need to re-administer the test items from the screening - simply transfer responses from the PLS-5 Screening Tests to the PLS-5 protocol.

Ideal for programs serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers whose primary language is English.
Brief and 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, use toys and objects easily found within the child's environment (e.g., squeaky toys, rattles, baby bottle, cup).
Record Forms are available in tear-off pads.

The following resources are available for PLS-5 Screening Test.

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Case Study: CJ Age 1 year, 6 months
Case Study: Jacy Age 1 year, 10 months
Case Study: Emily Age 2 years, 6 months
Case Study: Eduardo Age 3 years, 2 months
Case Study: Azadeh Age Age 3 years, 6 months
Case Study: Jenny Age 4 years, 5 months
Case Study: Sergio Age 5 years, 10 months
Case Study: Wei Age 5 years, 10 months
Case Study: Lisa Age 6 years

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