Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Third Edition CELF3

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Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-
Third Edition(CELF-3)

• By Dr. Kersting

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Biographical Information

• Authors Eleanor Semel, Elizabeth H. Wiig, and
  Wayne A. Secord
• Revised 1987 (CELF-R), 1995 (CELF-3)
• Publisher-
• The Psychological Corporation
• 555 Academic Court
• San Antonio, TX 78204
• [phone]
• http//www.psychcorp.com

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Standardization Data

• Provides a representative sample for Hispanic,
  African-American, Asian, Native American, and
  Pacific Islander interests.
• Normed on children ranging in age from 6 years 0
  months through 21 years 11 months.
• Standardized

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Validity and Reliability

• No specific data was provided for the validity
  and reliability of the test.
• Validity- Content, construct, and concurrent
  validity is reported to be strong.
• Reliability- Internal consistency, test-retest,
  and inter-rater varied across ages and subtests.

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Purpose of Test

• Designed to identify children, adolescents, and
  young adults who lack the basic foundations of
  content and form that characterize mature
  language use.
• Tests the relationship among semantics,
  syntax/morphology, pragmatics, and memory.
• Designed to differentiate normal from disordered
  language in the receptive and expressive domains.

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Designed to Assess

• Sentence Structure
• Word Structure
• Concepts and Directions
• Formulated Sentenced
• Word Classes
• Recalling Sentences

• Sentence Assembly
• Semantic Relationships
• Word Associations
• Listening to Paragraphs
• Rapid, Automatic Naming

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Components of Test

• Examiners Manual
• Directions and procedures for the administration
  and scoring
• 2 Stimulus Manuals
• Manual 1- Sentence Structure, Word Structure,
  Formulated Sentences, and Rapid, Automatic Naming
• Manual 2- Concepts and Directions, Sentence
  Assembly, and Semantic Relationships
• Technical Manual
• Describes rationale and design of the revision
• Describes field testing, standardization, and
  norming

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Components of Test

• 12 Record Forms
• Ancillaries
• Clinical Assistant - computer software program
  designed to score the test and give a narrative
  report of the results
• Communication Checklist- validates the results
  and helps determine the significance of the
  effects of a students language disorder.
• Vinyl Briefcase

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Test Description

• Test contains 11 Subtests
• Core Subtests- measuring syntax, semantics, and
  memory
• Supplementary Receptive and Expressive Subtests-
  probing automatic naming ability
• Core subtests
• Sentence Structure
• Word Structure
• Concepts and Directions
• Formulated Sentences
• Word Classes

• Recalling Sentences
• Sentence Assembly
• Semantic Relationships

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Test Description

• Supplementary Subtests
• Word Associations
• Listening to Paragraphs
• Rapid, Automatic Naming

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Administration

• Administration Time 30 -45 minutes
• Examiners should have experience administering,
  scoring, and interpreting scores of standardized
  tests
• All instructions should be followed precisely to
  maintain test reliability.

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Scoring

• Norm-referenced
• Normalized standard score scale- Mean 10, SD
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• Total Language score
• Overall language performance
• Receptive Language and Expressive Language score
• Provide a comparison of performance in these two
  broad aspects of language
• Ten individual subtests
• Performance information enabling identification
  of strengths and weaknesses

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Goals

• The student will show that she understands simple
  and complex sentence structures by selecting
  picture or object representations of the targeted
  structures to ___ above baseline.
• The student will name 10-15 members of selected
  categories within a one-minute time period.

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