EVALUATION LANGUAGE - CASL
An assessment of receptive and expressive language skills was conducted. The following is a summary
of the test results.
The Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, Form 2 (CASL) is a norm-referenced oral
language assessment battery of tests that provides information about oral language skills that children
and adolescents need to become literate as well as to succeed in school and in the work environment.
Comprehension of Basic Concepts
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This task measures auditory comprehension of words that refer to basic perceptual and conceptual
relations. Poor performance may indicate difficulties understanding the language of directions in school.
Antonyms
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This task measures word knowledge, retrieval, and oral expression in a linguistically decontextualized
environment. Poor performance may indicate difficulties with academic language.
Synonyms
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This task measures knowledge of the meaning of spoken words in a linguistically decontextualized
environment. Poor performance may indicate an inadequate vocabulary.
Sentence Completion
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This task measures word knowledge, retrieval, and oral expression in a linguistic context. Poor
performance may indicate difficulty retrieving precise vocabulary to describe events.
Idiomatic Language
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This task measures knowledge, retrieval, and oral expression of idioms. Incomplete idiom knowledge will
cause individuals to substitute similar but incorrect words in forming an idiom, thereby causing
communication problems with others.
Syntax Construction
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This task measures oral expression of words, phrases, and sentences using a variety or morphosyntactic
rules
Paragraph Comprehension of Syntax
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This task measures auditory comprehension of syntax in spoken narratives
Grammatical Morphemes
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This task measures metalinguistic knowledge and use of the form and meaning of grammatical
morphemes
Grammaticality Judgment
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This task measures judgment of and ability to correct the grammar of sentences
Nonliteral Language
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This task measures the understanding of the meaning of spoken messages independent of the literal
interpretation of the surface structure.
Meaning from Context
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This task measures derivation of the meaning of words from their oral linguistic context.
Inference
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This task measures use of previously acquired world knowledge to derive meaning from inferences in
spoken language.
Pragmatic Judgment
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This task measures knowledge and use of pragmatic language rules and judgment of their appropriate
application.
CORE COMPOSITE
LEXICAL/SEMANTIC
SYNTACTIC
SUPRALINGUISTIC
RECEPTIVE
EXPRESSIVE
SLP04 (1/08)
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