Ages: 4-0 to 8-11
Testing Time: 1 hour
Administration: Individual

The Test of Language Development-Primary: Fourth Edition (TOLD-P:4) assesses spoken language in young children. It is well constructed, reliable, practical, research-based, and theoretically sound. Professionals can use the TOLD-P:4 to (1) identify children who are significantly below their peers in oral language proficiency, (2) determine their specific strengths and weaknesses in oral language skills, (3) document their progress in remedial programs, and (4) measure oral language in research studies.

Subtests and Composites
The TOLD-P:4 has nine subtests which measure various aspects of oral language are described below. The results of these subtests can be combined to form composite scores for the major dimensions of language: semantics and grammar; listening, organizing, and speaking; and overall language ability.

Picture Vocabulary - measures a child's understanding of the meaning of spoken English words (semantics, listening)
Relational Vocabulary - measures a child's understanding and ability to orally express the relationships between two spoken stimulus words (semantics, organizing)
Oral Vocabulary - measures a child's ability to give oral directions to common English words that are spoken by the examiner (semantics, speaking)
Syntactic Understanding - measures a child's ability to comprehend the meaning of sentences (grammar, listening)
Sentence Imitation - measures a child's ability to imitate English sentences (grammar, organizing)
Morphological Completion - measures a child's ability to recognize, understand, and use common English morphological forms (grammar, speaking)
Word Discrimination - measures a child's ability to recognize the differences in significant speech sounds (phonology, listening)
Word Analysis - measures a child's ability to segment words into smaller phonemic units (phonology, organizing)
Word Articulation - meas... (more)