SLDT-A
Social Language Development Test: Adolescent
Purpose: Identifies atypical social language behaviors in adolescents and determine how they compare with their typically developing peers
Format: Paper and pencil
Time: 45 minutes
DETAILS:
The Social Language Development Test: Adolescent is a standardized test of social language skills that focuses on social interpretation and interaction with peers. Tasks require students to take someone's perspective, make correct inferences, solve problems with peers, interpret social language, and understand idioms, irony, and sarcasm.
Features and Benefits
Assesses students' language-based responses to portrayed, peer-to-peer situations.
Differentiates typically developing adolescents from those with language learning disorders or autism.
Shows statistically significant age progression and focuses on skills proven to be deeply sensitive to the subtle aspects of social language development.
Delineates the skills students need to be successful on each subtest and each task within a subtest and applies them to academic performance and peer interactions.
Identifies error patterns and outlines the implications of different types of errors.
Guides the examiner to make appropriate and educationally relevant recommendations for remediation based on a clear understanding of each subtest.
Includes remediation strategies that can be incorporated into a therapy program or shared with teachers and parents.