DHH Resource Details

The Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test-Third Edition (SPELT-3) includes 54 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. The child’s strengths and weaknesses can be readily identified. Test items target the child’s use of MORPHOLOGY (preposition, plural, possessive noun and pronoun, reflexive pronoun, subject pronoun, direct/indirect object, present progressive, regular and irregular past, future, contractible/uncontractible copula, contractible/uncontractible auxiliary) and SYNTAX (negative, conjoined sentence, "Wh" question, interrogative reversal, negative infinitive phrase, propositional complement, relative clause, and front embedded clause).

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