Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - Fourth Edition UK (CELF-4 UK)

E Semel, E H Wiig, W Secord

The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - Fourth Edition UK (CELF-4UK), features a new approach to assessment that enables you to accurately and reliably assess a child's language difficulties. Combine core subtests with supplementary subtests to get a comprehensive assessment of a child's language skills as you create a pathway to intervention.

With improved diagnostic power, CELF-4UK uses a four-step assessment approach to identify children with language disorders quickly and with confidence.

You can administer the core subtests, four of CELF-4UK's most discriminating subtests, to get a Total Language Score which determines if a problem exists.

Going beyond the core subtests, the next step in the CELF-4UK assessment process helps you to determine the nature of the language disorder: the child's language strengths and weaknesses, Receptive Language and Expressive Language Scores.

Also, new to the CELF-4UK, are additional composite scores in:

• Language Structure
• Language Content
• Language Content and Memory

• Working Memory Scores.

Further testing with the following supplementary subtests also enables you to determine what critical clinical skills and behaviours underlie the child's language disorder:

• Phonological Awareness
• Rapid Automatic Naming
• Digit Span
• Sequences
• Word Associations

• Memory Composites.

The CELF-4UK provides a bridge to classroom language and broad-based IEP planning. You can use the Observational Rating Scales (ORS) and the Pragmatics Profile as descriptive measures of a child's academic and social language learning needs.

Features of the CELF-4UK

• CELF-4UK presents a multi-step assessment process that provides fast and accurate results
• The results provided help you to develop the most appropriate solutions for addressing children's language problems in the classroom
• Simple to administer and score, the CELF-4UK has two new easy-to-use Record Forms that provide only the subtests you need based on the child's age
• Flexibility of subtest administration allows for shorter testing times while providing highly reliable, accurate results
• New composite scores include Language Structure, Language Content, Language Content and Memory and Working Memory Scores
• Culturally diverse contexts and visual stimuli make CELF-4UK appropriate and interesting for conditions and diagnosed language disorders
• New subtests include Expressive Vocabulary, Word Definitions, Number Repetition 1 and 2, Familiar Sequences level 2, Phonological Awareness, Pragmatics Profile and the Observational Rating Scales.