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Listening Comprehension Skills
Listening comprehension is the ability to prescribe meaning or understanding to auditory information.
Skill Assessment
Measures (Informal, Criterion-Referenced,
Subtest
Curriculum-Based, Standardized)
Understanding of words
WJ-III, ROWPVT, PPVT-III, CREVT-2, WIAT-III
Picture Vocabulary; Receptive Vocabulary
Ability to listen and understand oral
WJ-III
Oral Comprehension
language
WIAT-III
Listening Comprehension-Oral Discourse
KTEA-II
Listening Comprehension
DAB-3
Characteristics
Ability to follow directions
WJ-III
Understanding directions
Skill in classroom
Teacher interview, Checklist
Response to Intervention Data
Curriculum-based/Progress Mon.
Narrow Ability/Core Cognitive
Process/Language Area
Understanding words, sentences, and paragraphs /
Semantics
Ability to listen and understand oral language /
Semantics & Metalinguistics
Broad
Ability
Gc-VL, LD
Gc-LS
Gc-LD
Gf-I
Glr-MM
Ability to understand grammar in sentences /
Syntax
Gc-MY
Ability to understand general factual information /
Metalinguistics
Ability to remember what is heard / Syntax
Ability to synthesize and analyze phonetic coding /
Phonology
Ability to remember familiar words or sequences /
Memory Span
Gc-KO
Gsm-MS
Ga-PC:S,
PC:A
Gsm-MS,
MW
Measures (Standardized,
Criterion-Referenced)
CASL
CELF-4; WORD-2
CASL
CELF-4
TAPS-3
CASL
CELF-4
CASL
TAPS-3
CELF-4; WIAT-III
CELF-4
CELF-4
Subtest
Comprehension of Basic Concepts, Synonyms
Word Classes-Receptive; Associations
Idiomatic Language, Paragraph Comp of Syntax,
Sentence Completion
Concepts & Following Directions, Semantic
Relationships, Sentence Structure, Understanding
Spoken Paragraphs, Word Structure
Auditory Comp
Grammaticality Judgment, Sentence Comp of Syntax
Word Structure
Inferences
Auditory Reasoning
Recalling Sentences; Sentence Repetition
Phonological Awareness
Number Repetition-Forward & Backward
Familiar Sequences