Irla Lee Zimmerman

Violette G. Steiner

Roberta Evatt Pond

An interactive, play-based assessment of language skills from birth to 7 years 11 months

Material Type

Manipulatives

Manuals

Record Forms

Scoring Type

Hand/Manual Scoring

Preschool Language Scales, Fifth Edition - Australian and New Zealand Language Adapted Edition

Order PLS-5 A&NZ to get a comprehensive developmental language assessment covering pre-verbal, interaction-based skills to emerging language and early literacy.

Kits

Booklets, record forms, answer sheets, report usages & subscriptions

Test forms & reports

Manuals, stimulus books, replacement items & other materials

Support materials

All tests and materials offered for PLS-5

All products

Preschool Language Scale-5 Screening Test

<p>Includes:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Examiner&#39;s Manual</li>
	<li>Administration Scoring Manual</li>
	<li>Picture Manual</li>
	<li>Record Forms (Pack of 25)</li>
	<li>Home Communication Questionnaire (Pack of 25)</li>
	<li>Complete Manipulatives Kit</li>
</ul>


PLS-5 Australian & New Zealand Language Adapted Edition Complete Kit with Manipulatives

<p>Includes</p>

<p>Examiner's Manual<br />Administration Scoring Manual<br />Picture Manual<br />Home Communication Questionnaire (Pack of 25)<br />Record Forms (Pack of 25)</p>

PLS-5 Australian & New Zealand Language Adapted Edition Basic Kit

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<p>Includes:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Plastic Bear</li>
	<li>Comb</li>
	<li>Crayons</li>
	<li>Books</li>
	<li>Pitcher</li>
	<li>Cloth</li>
	<li>Rattles</li>
	<li>Ball</li>
	<li>Plastic Bowls</li>
	<li>Cups</li>
	<li>Spoons</li>
	<li>Squeaky Toy</li>
	<li>Cars</li>
	<li>Wind Up Toys</li>
	<li>Box with Lid</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Please note:</strong> Kit does not include bubbles with wand, sheet of paper, metal keys on a ring, watch with a second hand, or sealable plastic bags.</p>
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PLS-5 Complete Manipulative's Kit

PLS 5 Australian and New Zealand Language Adapted Administration and Scoring Manual

PLS-5 Australian and New Zealand Language Adapted Examiner's Manual

PLS-5 Australian & New Zealand Language Adapted Edition Record Forms

PLS-5 Australian & New Zealand Language Adapted Edition Home Communication Questionnaire

PLS-5 Australian and New Zealand Language Adapted Picture Manual

<p><b>Qualification Level</b></p>
<p><b>Level A</b></p>
<p>This approval level enables you to buy our assessments that require no professional degree, accreditation, organization membership, or license/certificate.</p>
<p><b>Level B</b></p>
<p>This approval level enables you to buy our assessments requiring A or B qualification levels.</p>
<p><b>Level C</b></p>
<p>This approval level enables you to buy all our assessments.</p>

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<p><strong>From Australia:</strong> 1300 473 277<br />
<strong>From New Zealand:</strong> +64 9886 9536</p>


Overview

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			<p>The PLS-5 is a comprehensive developmental language assessment, providing you with reliable and trusted information about language skills for children up to 7 years 11 months.</p>

			<p>The PLS-5 is an interactive, play-based assessment featuring:</p>

			<ul>
				<li>Progress tracking using Growth Scores</li>
				<li>Items to address a wider variety of early play behaviours</li>
				<li>Better elicit target responses</li>
				<li>Streamlined administration with minimised transitions between the play and picture pointing tasks</li>
				<li>Colourful instructions to engage children</li>
				<li>The brief Articulation Screener, enabling targeting of multiple phonemes within words</li>
				<li>More plastic manipulatives (including Mr. Bear!) so they can be wiped clean after each administration</li>
			</ul>

			<p><img alt="" src="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/au/assets/pls-5/pls5-kitpic.png" /></p>

			<p>(U.S. kit is pictured)</p>

			<h3>Content &amp; Administration</h3>

			<ul>
				<li>Administer PLS-5 to test a full range of language skills across the developmental language spectrum</li>
				<li>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&ndash;2:0.</li>
				<li>Address the needs of children up to 8 years of age who have severe, persistent deficits such as autism or severe developmental delays</li>
			</ul>

			<h3>Use PLS-5 to:</h3>

			<ul>
				<li>Target interaction, attention, vocal/gestural behaviours, and different levels of play for children from Birth to 2:11</li>
				<li>Assess preschoolers with new items for letter naming and book handling, and updated school readiness skills</li>
				<li>Target language skills that tap Theory of Mind and emergent literacy skills for 6- and 7-year-olds</li>
				<li>Assess children at age 7 with new language tasks such as assessing use of irregular plurals and synonyms, constructing sentences using two or three target words in the sentence, and answering questions about a story</li>
			</ul>

			<p><strong>PLS-5 Items: Changes from PLS-4 during U.S. Development</strong></p>

			<p><img alt="Changes from PLS4" src="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/au/assets/pls-5/pls5modified.gif" /></p>

			<h3>Features &amp; Benefits</h3>

			<ul>
				<li><strong>NEW! </strong>Track progress using Growth Scores to monitor a child&rsquo;s skills from Birth through to 7:11</li>
				<li>Address a wider variety of early play behaviours</li>
				<li>Better elicit target responses due to test item modifications that are based on examiner feedback</li>
				<li>Minimise transitions between the play and picture pointing tasks now that test items with manipulatives are grouped to streamline administration</li>
				<li>Engage children with the new Picture Manual featuring large, colourful illustrations</li>
				<li>Target multiple phonemes within words using the brief Articulation Screener, which now includes picture stimuli</li>
				<li>Many of the manipulatives are plastic (including Mr. Bear!) so they can be wiped clean after each administration</li>
			</ul>

			<p><img alt="Areas Assessed" src="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/au/assets/pls-5/pls5areas-assessed.gif" /></p>

			<h3>Psychometric Information</h3>

			<ul>
				<li>1,400 children participated in the standardisation normative sample, collected in more than 45 states in the United States</li>
				<li>Norms are reported for 3-month intervals for children Birth to 11 months and 6-month intervals for ages 12 months through to 7 years, 11 months</li>
				<li>Clinical studies include a developmental delay study and three language disorder studies (children with receptive language disorder, expressive language disorder, and both receptive and expressive disorder)</li>
				<li>Case studies include children identified as high risk (environmental risk) and children identified with autism</li>
				<li>Multiple reviews for bias were conducted throughout the test development. Nationally recognised U.S. experts in assessment and bias issues conducted a thorough review of test items and art. An additional sample of African American and Hispanic children were tested to conduct the statistical analysis of bias.</li>
				<li>Split half reliabilities range from .80 to .97. Sensitivity for the Total Language score is .83; and specificity is .80.</li>
			</ul>

			<h3>Materials</h3>

			<p>In addition to the Examiner&#39;s Manual, Administration Scoring Manual, Picture Manual, Record Forms, and Home Communication Questionnaire, the following manipulatives are needed for administration:</p>

			<p><img alt="PLS-5 manipulatives" src="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/au/assets/pls-5/pls5manuipulatives.gif" /></p>
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Product Details

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			<td><p>The following resources are available for PLS-5.

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				<li><a href="/content/dam/school/global/clinical/au/assets/pls-5/pls-5-norms-1-month-increments-children-2-6-to-2-11-years.pdf" target="_blank">PLS-5 Norms in 1-Month Increments for Children Ages 2:6 to 2:11 years</a></li>
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