Structured Photographic Expressive Language
Test-Preschool 2 (SPELT-P 2)
Janet Dawson, Ph.D., Connie Stout, Ph.D., Julia Eyer, Ph.D., Pat Tattersall, M.A., Jan Fonkalsrud, M.A., and Karen Croley, M.S.

The SPELT-P 2 includes 44 new full color photographs of everyday situations and objects paired with simple verbal questions and statements to elicit specific morphological and syntactic structures. It allows for analysis of specific language structures that may not occur in spontaneous language samples. This new edition targets 40 items using 44 photographs to probe the young child’s ability to generate early developing morphological and syntactic forms. The child's strengths and weaknesses can be readily identified. Target structures include prepositions, articles, plurals, possessive nouns and pronouns, subject pronouns, axuiliary verbs, copulas, present participles, past tense, third person markers, as well as negatives, conjoined sentence, “wh” question, interrogative reversal, infinitive phrase, propositional complement, relative clause, and front embedded clause. Administration time is from 15 to 20 minutes. Ages: 3-0 through 5-11.


“Delightful photographs capture the child's interest and elicit natural language!”

“The photo album format is familiar to the children and makes them less fearful of a TEST. This is a great way to sample a child's use of morphology and syntax.”


Features of the SPELT-P 2

• Forty-four 4" x 6" real life color photos in an album provide larger improved stimulus pictures.
• Updated pictures reflect a more current and non-biased representation of ethnicity.
• New morphological and syntactical structures have been added.
• Normative tables are based on a national sample of over 1700 children from the four geographical areas specified by the U.S. Census Bureau
• Standard scores, confidence intervals, percentile ranks, percentile bands and test-age equivalents are provided for females and males, ages 3-0 through 5-11.
• A new chapter on African American English and scoring guide are provided by Nola T. Radford, Ph.D.
• New reliability and validity studies are reported.

The SPELT-P 2 continues to utilize the same format as the previous successful version while updating the stimulus photographs, items, and providing normative data. This new edition includes an expanded discussion of test scoring, test interpretation, and the standardization procedures.

#0707 SPELT-P 2 - $180.00
Contents: manual, 44 color photographs (4" x 6") in a bound album, 50 response forms, sturdy storage box
#0708 SPELT-P 2 Response Forms - $30.00
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