Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool-3
CELF Preschool-3
Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals® Preschool-3 (CELF® Preschool-3) assesses aspects of language necessary for preschool children to meet the language demands of the classroom. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.- Age range:
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3:0 to 6:11
- Publication date:
- 2020
- Qualification level:
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B
- Completion time:
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Level 1: 15-20 minutes. Entire test: variable
- Administration:
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Verbal response to stimulus picture
- Scores/Interpretation:
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Core language score; receptive and expressive language index scores; expressive language, language content, and language structure index scores; standard scores, percentile ranks, age equivalents, and growth scores.
- Scoring options:
- Q-interactive® Administration and Scoring, Q-global® Scoring & Reporting or Manual Scoring
- Norms:
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700 preschool-age children ages 3:0 to 6:11
- Telepractice:
- Guidance on using this test in your telepractice
The new CELF-Preschool-3 is now available!
Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals® Preschool-3 (CELF® Preschool-3) enables you to assess the language skills that are the building blocks needed for success in the classroom. This new edition includes everything you loved about the CELF-Preschool-2, plus more enhancements that benefit you and the children you test!
What's changed? CELF Preschool-3 features all of the benefits of CELF®-Preschool-2 plus:
- Updated norms, test items and art
- Digital options using Q-global® or Q-interactive®
- New connected Speech subtest and Pragmatics Activities Checklist
- Two new index scores help you determine if a child has the language skills needed to transition to the classroom
- Academic Language Readiness index
- Emerging Literacy index
- New growth scales values
- CELF Preschool-3 Screening Test now available!
- Save even more with a combo kit
Test Content
Subtests with scaled scores:
- Sentence Comprehension
- Word Structure
- Expressive Vocabulary
- Following Directions
- Recalling Sentences
- Basic Concepts
- Word Classes
- Phonological Awareness
- Descriptive Pragmatics Profile
- Emerging Literacy Rating Scale
Subtests with criterion score and/or descriptive information:
- Connected Speech Sample
- Pragmatic Activities Checklist
Scores
Subtest and Index scaled scores, percentile ranks, age equivalents, and growth scale values
- Core Language Score
- Receptive Language Index
- Expressive Language Index
- Language Content Index
- Language Structure Index
- Academic Language Readiness Index
- Emerging Literacy Index
The following resources are available for CELF Preschool-3
Tests in the CELF Preschool-3 harness the processing capacities of Q-interactive to provide new, more dynamic, cognitively demanding tasks that are unable to be delivered and scored with fidelity in a traditional paper format.
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Existing Users
If you have an active Q-interactive license, CELF Preschool-3 will be automatically added to your account.
Test Content
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Yes, all of those are deleted from the new test.
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- Updated test items (no more calculator, stamps, or newspaper) and new normative data
- New digital test administration options (via Q-g and Q-i) for face-to-face administration and telepractice.
- New supplemental subtests (Connected Speech and Pragmatics Activities Checklist)
- New index scores: Academic Language index and Emerging Literacy index
- New screening test and digital scoring (sold separately)
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The new test includes a Connected Speech subtest using a story retell format. Use the No Juice! book to tell the child the story, then ask him or her to retell the story. Compare the morphosyntactic forms used in the Connected Speech sample to those on the Word Structure subtests.
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What am I buying?
Q-global
What equipment do I need?
Q-global
Q-interactive
- Face-to- face test administration: Any web-enabled tablet or computer
- Telepractice (remote administration): computer with teleconferencing application (secure transmission with encryption, i.e, AdobeConnect)
- Face-to-face test administration: Two iPads*
- Telepractice (remote administration):
- two iPads with a mirroring app
- a computer with a secure teleconferencing application
Do I need internet access?
Q-global
Q-interactive
Using either platform…
You control the testing pace and presentation of test stimuli.
Will the CELF Preschool-3 Screening Test also be available as a digital assessment?
It will be available on Q-global, but not on Q-interactive.
What if I am a Q-interactive user with a Standard or Speech license?
CELF Preschool-3 will automatically appear on Standard and Speech licenses after publication. Scoring and reporting options will also appear in your Q-global account.
Use Cases
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That is up to you, and depends on the requirements or limitations at your work setting. If you conduct mass screenings, one advantage to using the CELF Preschool-3 Screening Test if you plan to follow up with the child by administering CELF Preschool-3 is that you can take the examinee's responses from the Screening and write them (or just the scores) on the CELF Preschool-3 protocol and skip those questions during the test administration (so the child does not have to take the items twice). But you can certainly choose to use any screening tool before administering the CELF Preschool-3.
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You can certainly follow up with any diagnostic assessment after using a PLS-5 Screening protocol. However, if you use an assessment other than CELF Preschool-3, you would not be able to transfer responses from the screening test.
