PLS–5 offers you a comprehensive developmental language assessment, with items that range from pre-verbal, interaction-based skills to emerging language to early literacy!

This interactive, play-based assessment provides comprehensive, reliable, and trusted information about language skills for children who are at high risk for moderate-to-severe language delays.

Uses & Applications

• Administer PLS–5 to test a full range of language skills across the developmental language spectrum
• Link the Home Communication Questionnaire items directly to test tasks to serve as a baseline for testing. This frees testing time for observing natural interactions between parents and children from Birth–2:0.
• Streamlined administration with similar items grouped for smoother transitions across test items
• Assess preschoolers with new items assessing letter naming, book handling, and Theory of Mind
• Evaluate early school language and literacy skills, with tasks such as storytelling, and phonological awareness
• Now available for children through age 7 to address the needs of children with severe, persistent deficits such as children with autism

Features & Benefits

• Track progress using Growth Scores to monitor a child's skills from Birth through age 7:11
• Target multiple phonemes within words using the brief Articulation Screener, which now includes picture stimuli
• Expanded coverage of early play behaviours, concepts, Theory of Mind, and emergent literacy skills
• Manipulatives and a Picture Manual with large, colourful pictures that children love!
• Updated Articulation Screener with picture stimuli