Speech Language

The New Reynell Developmental Language Scales (NRDLS) is the fourth edition of the most widely-used and highly regarded assessment tools for identifying speech and language delays and impairments in very young children. The Scales have been revised, improved and newly standardised on more than 1,200 children in the UK - making it up-to-date in terms of both good practice and the latest research. 

GL Assessment’s leading vocabulary assessment for standard English, the British Picture Vocabulary Scale: Third Edition (BPVS3), can play an important role in assessing a child’s receptive (hearing) vocabulary, from as young as 3 years right up to 16 years of age. Its simple, appealing format and ease of administration belies the significance of the assessment and how it can help identify any delay in vocabulary development, even before children are in full time education.

This assessment is designed to identify those who may have delays or impairments with their comprehension or expression of language. It covers the following areas of language development:

• Sentence comprehension
• Inferential comprehension
• Naming
• Syntactic formulation
• Syntactic decisions
• Semantic decisions
• Non-literal comprehension
• Narrative