CELF-5
What age range is the CELF-5 for?
Ages 5-21
Which sub-test of the CELF-5 did Duane show the most success with?
RLI
Does Duane currently have support or intervention services in place?
No
Is Duane’s core language score considered borderline or below average when compared to his same-aged peers
borderline
How old is Duane?
8 years old
How many subtests are on the CELF-5?
9
What was Duane’s percentile ranking for the Expressive Language Index (ELI)
9th percentile
Who referred Duane?
His teacher, Ms. Snyder
What areas did Duane display significant difficulty with?
using grammatical features, creating sentences, repeating sentences verbatim, and answering questions correctly after listening to short paragraphs
Why is it important to take Duane’s dialect into account while administering the CELF-5?
If you report his dialectical differences as incorrect productions, the results will be off and you might be misdiagnosing a language difference as a language disorder. Thankfully, the CELF-5 provides accommodations for dialectical differences!
What does the CELF-5 test for?
The individually administered tests are used to assist a clinician in accurately diagnose a language disorder in children and adolescents in order to effectively pinpoint a student’s strengths and weaknesses to make appropriate placement and intervention recommendations.
Is Duane’s Receptive Language Index below average, borderline, average, or good?
Average
Based on the referral form, why did Duane’s teacher refer him for an evaluation?
His teacher referred Duane because he is having difficulty listening in the classroom. He can’t seem to remember all of the information. This could be for directions if they are reading out loud, or watching information via video. Then he either can’t complete his work or doesn’t follow directions, and has to ask others. It is becoming disruptive to the class. He also seems to have trouble understanding vocabulary words and information from the textbooks and stories. His sentences are often grammatically incorrect.
Was there any additional information about Duane that you would like to learn before completing his evaluation?
It would be helpful to see a portfolio assessment of his work in class and to hear more from teachers about his behaviors, mood, motivation, and attention span.
Duane becomes discouraged and distracted throughout the session. How would you help him to keep focused and be positive?
You could provide behavior-specific praise like, “Thank you for sitting in your chair and working hard; you are staying so focused!” or more general comments such as, “Great work, we’ll take a break after 5 more questions!”
What subtests of the CELF-5 have dialectic scoring
Responses to the Word Structure, Formulated Sentences, and Recalling Sentences tests may contain regional and cultural patterns or variations that reflect dialectical differences from Mainstream American English (MAE).
Do you think Duane’s attention and attitude affected his assessment scores? Give a reason for your answer.
Yes. Duane became extremely fatigued during the assessment as it was lengthy.
What were the two primary concerns for Duane’s referral?
articulation and language
What are Duane’s strengths reported?
comprehension of sentence structures, linguistic concerts, and following simple directions
Give an example of a game, toy, or book you could use with Duane to help him target one of the areas he shows difficulty in.
Our thoughts: You could use a book that talks about a social story and then have Duane discuss what happened and if it was him what he would do?
How do you find the scaled score chart on the CELF-5?
Use Appendix A
What was Duane’s percentile ranking for his Core Language Score (CLS)?
16th percentile
Who does Duane show the most difficulty communicating with?
The adults
Which scores are considered borderline or at-risk?
core language score, expressive language index, language structure index score, pragmatics profile
Create an intervention goal that targets one of the areas Duane has significant difficulty in? (grammatical features, creating sentences, repeating sentences verbatim, and answering questions correctly after listening to short paragraphs)?
Duane will create sentences using regular past tense verbs with 80% accuracy with no more than 2 visual or verbal prompts over 3 consecutive sessions