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Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals | Fifth Edition

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals | Fifth Edition

CELF-5
CELF-5 provides clinicians with a streamlined, flexible battery to assess semantics, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics for students ages 5-21. CELF-5 features structured and authentic tests of language ability (including observational and interactive measures) for a complete picture of students' language skills. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.

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      Includes Examiner's Manual (Digital), Technical Manual (Digital), Stimulus Book (Digital), 15 Record Form 1 Ages 5-8 (Print), 15 Record Form 2 Ages 9-21 (Print), 10 Reading and Writing Supplement 1 for ages 8-10 (Print), 10 CELF-5 Reading and Writing Supplement 2 for ages 11-21 (Print), Pad of 50 Observational Rating Scale Record Forms (Print). Once ordered, the digital assets are accessible by logging into Q-global and visiting the Q-global Resource Library. They are view-only digital files.

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      Includes Sentence Comprehension, Linguistic Concepts, Word Structure, Word Classes, Formulated Sentences

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      Includes Following Directions, Sentence Assembly, Semantic Relationships, Reading Comprehension

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    • CELF-5 Observational Rating Scale Record Forms Qty 50 (Print)
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    • CELF-5 Reading and Writing Supplement Record Forms Ages 8-10 Qty 25 (Print)
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    • CELF-5 Overview Live Webinar 3 Hours
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      This 3-hour session provides an overview of subtest administration and scoring and basic interpretation of the CELF–5 results. Price includes up to 40 people per session.

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      This 6-hour session provides an in-depth understanding of subtest administration and scoring, and a basic understanding of interpretation. Price includes up to 40 people per session.

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    • CELF-5 Administration, Scoring, and Basic Interpretation In Person 6 Hours
      A103000197863 Qualification Level B

      This 6-hour session provides an in-depth understanding of subtest administration and scoring, and a basic understanding of interpretation. Price includes up to 40 people per session.

      Training orders will be processed within 5-7 business days of order placement. A training consultant will contact you to coordinate your training. Training dates are scheduled 4-6 weeks from order placement.

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    • CELF-5 Live Question and Answer Virtual 1 Hour
      A103000197864 Qualification Level B

      Price includes up to 40 people per session. This Q&A session supports participants who have attended a previous session or are familiar with the assessment. A Pearson expert will meet with participants to address follow-up questions and support specific assessment-related needs. To use the hour efficiently, participants will submit questions in advance.

      Training orders will be processed within 5-7 business days of order placement. A training consultant will contact you to coordinate your training. Training dates are scheduled 4-6 weeks from order placement.

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    Overview

    Publication date:
    Fall, 2013

    Age range:
    5:0 –21:11

    Scores/Interpretation:
    Core Language Score, Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Language Structure and Language Content standard scores, percentile ranks, growth scale values, and age equivalents.

    Qualification level:
    B

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    Completion time:
    30–45 minutes for the Core Language Score. Total assessment: variable.

    Administration:
    Verbal response to picture stimuli

    Scoring options:
    Q-global™ Web-based Administration, Scoring, and Reporting; and manual scoring

    Telepractice:
    Guidance on using this test in your telepractice

    Product Details

    The new CELF-5 is a comprehensive battery of 16 standalone tests that provides a streamlined, flexible and interactive approach to language assessment.

    Benefits

    • Compare written skills to oral language skills.
    • Assess reading comprehension, structured writing, and social language skills.
    • Report standard scores, percentile ranks, and growth scale values for the Pragmatics Profile.

    Features

    CELF-5 provides highly accurate diagnostic information with updated normative data.

    • Automatically converted total raw scores to test scaled scores, percentile ranks, age equivalents and growth scale values.
    • Automatically converted sums of scaled scores to composite scores.
    • Full set of paper record forms, reading and writing supplements, and observational rating scales.
    • 24/7 secure, web-based access on desktop or laptop, ideal for telepractice.
    • Item analysis of performance on individual tests.
    • Graphical and narrative reporting data.
    • New normative data based on the March 2010 U.S. Census.

    Tests included

    • Observational Rating Scale
    • Sentence Comprehension
    • Word Structure
    • Following Directions
    • Formulated Sentences
    • Recalling Sentences
    • Understanding Spoken Paragraphs
    • Word Definitions
    • Sentence Assembly
    • Semantic Relationships
    • Reading Comprehension
    • Structured Writing
    • Pragmatics Profile
    • Pragmatics Activities Checklist

    Samples

    Score reports automatically convert total raw scores to test scaled scores, percentile ranks, age equivalents, and growth scale values

    Telepractice

    Find out how to use this test in your telepractice.

    Learn more

    Resources

    The following resources are available for CELF-5.

    Test Information

    Technical Information

    Interviews & Presentations

    Case Studies

    		 

    Q-interactive

    CELF-5 on Q-interactive at a Glance:

    Scoring and Reporting

    • Score Report
    • Excel Report

    Available in French

    • CELF-5 is also available on Q-interactive in French. See CELF-5-CDN-F

    Materials Needed

    Benefits of CELF-5 on Q-interactive

    • Create a custom battery by combining CELF-5 subtests with other tests such as the GFTA-3 and PPVT-4.
    • Obtain scaled scores immediately after finishing a subtest, to increase scoring speed and accuracy.
    • Improve accuracy thanks to automated scoring and automated start points and discontinue rules.
    • Engage children by displaying stimuli on the iPad.
    • Listen to your client's responses after the assessment session via our audio recording feature.
    • Automatically generate score reports that include item analyses.

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    Annual Q-interactive licenses can be purchased using our online order form or by calling Customer Support at 1-866-335-8418. See the Q-interactive license options for more information on pricing.

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    If you want to add the CELF-5 to your account, visit our online order form and select the "Add test(s) to existing account" option. You may also call Customer Support at 1-866-335-8418.

    		 

    FAQs

    FAQs

    Select a question below to see the response.

    CELF-5

    What does CELF-5 have in common with previous editions of CELF?

    Age range: 5:0 through 21:11 (Except Reading Comprehension and Writing. Those are for ages 9:0 through 21:11.) Index Scores Core Language, Content, Structure, Language Memory, Receptive Language, Expressive Language (there is no Written Language Index). Test Items on some tests.

    What has changed in CELF-5 compared to previous editions?

    Battery of tests: The CELF-5 is a battery of 16 tests (each age group takes 10 tests) Test Changes: Revisions: All of the tests have some revisions to the wording or artwork based on clinician feedback and research data.

    Major revisions to the CELF-4 subtests include:

    • Splitting the Concepts and Following Directions subtests into two different tests.
    • Word Classes: there is no longer an expressive portion of the test.
    • Pragmatics Profile now reports scaled scores.
    • Expressive Vocabulary, Word Associations, Rapid Automatic Naming, Number Repetition and Familiar Sequences have been deleted from the CELF-5.
    • New tests: Reading Comprehension and Writing.
    • New Checklist: Pragmatic Activities Checklist (completed based on activity-based interaction with the student; is a deep dive into nonverbal and verbal behaviors that the student exhibits so that you can better plan intervention.
    • Basals, ceilings, raw score/scaled scores based on current research data.

    Normative data

    • Based on current U.S. Census figures.
    • Large minority population.

    Sentence Comprehension

    Is this a new subtest? Is it something other than auditory comprehension at the sentence level rather than the paragraph level?

    It is not. The Sentence Structure test was renamed to better describe the construct being tested. It is auditory comprehension at the sentence level.

    Following Directions

    One reason I stopped using the CELF is that the Concepts and Following Directions subtest was so heavily dependent on a child having adequate attention and memory that it often pulled a score down far below what made sense for a child. Children who have adequate concept knowledge and language skills but poor attention are penalized by this subtest. How does the new FD subtest compare to the old CFD subtest?

    The CELF-5 splits Concepts and Following Directions into two different subtests. One focuses on comprehension of concepts; the other is a set of items that requires a child to point to pictures following directions that are increasingly complex (1, 2, and 3 step commands.) Examples: "Before pointing to the last square, point to the first circle."

    A student with a language disorder may have appropriate concept knowledge for his or her age, but experience difficulty in the classroom when he or she cannot integrate concept knowledge into increasingly long and complex directions typically given by teachers in the classroom. The difficulty may lie in understanding long complex directions and/or attention and memory deficits. You will need to work with the psychologist on your team to better understand the role of memory and attention that contribute to the child's deficits in comprehending complex directions.  

    Formulated Sentences  

    While I understand the rationale behind this subtest for measuring syntax skills, I have found that children who have poor attention (and therefore memory) score more poorly on this subtest than is indicated by their conversational syntax.

    The CELF-5 splits Concepts and Following Directions into two different subtests. One focuses on comprehension of concepts; the other is a set of items that requires a child to point to pictures, following directions that are increasingly complex (1, 2, and 3 step commands.) Examples: "Before pointing to the last square, point to the first circle."

    There are two ways to look at a child's morphosyntax abilities: Formulated Sentences and Recalling Sentences. Formulated Sentences gives you information about a child's ability to construct a sentence without auditory cues; Recalling Sentences gives you information about a child's ability to use his or her knowledge of linguistic rules--to repeat a long sentence, a child has to have mastery of the underlying grammatical structures rather than depend on memory alone. Having both tests enables you to do some differential diagnosis—is a child capable of producing a morphosyntactically complex sentences on his own, but not in a sentence repetition task (then it may be an attention or memory problem) or is the child unable to do either task well? If the latter is the case, memory and attention may not be the issues causing the problem.

    • Understanding Spoken Paragraphs
    • Word Definitions
    • Sentence Assembly
    • Semantic Relationships

    Written Language (Reading Comprehension and Writing)

    Is the age range for Reading and Writing the same as the other CELF-5 tests?

    9:0 through 21:11

    Are the Reading and Writing subtests required to obtain composite scores for certain ages?

    They are not.

    Core Language Skills  

    If a Core Language score of 64 is obtained when administering the CELF-4, should the CELF-4 then be administered in entirety to optimally identify strengths and weaknesses (if also being used to classify a student)? Is the Core Language Standard Score ever sufficient in and of itself?

    The Core Language Score is the most reliable and sensitive indicator of the presence of a language disorder. When the Core Language Score is low, it seems prudent to administer all the standardized subtests of CELF-4 to identify potential patterns of strengths and weaknesses.

    		 

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