EVALUATION LANGUAGE - CASL

An assessment of receptive and expressive language skills was conducted. The following is a summary
of the test results.

The Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, Form 2 (CASL) is a norm-referenced oral

language assessment battery of tests that provides information about oral language skills that children
and adolescents need to become literate as well as to succeed in school and in the work environment.

Comprehension of Basic Concepts Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures auditory comprehension of words that refer to basic perceptual and conceptual
relations. Poor performance may indicate difficulties understanding the language of directions in school.

Antonyms Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures word knowledge, retrieval, and oral expression in a linguistically decontextualized
environment. Poor performance may indicate difficulties with academic language.

Synonyms Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures knowledge of the meaning of spoken words in a linguistically decontextualized
environment. Poor performance may indicate an inadequate vocabulary.

Sentence Completion Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures word knowledge, retrieval, and oral expression in a linguistic context. Poor
performance may indicate difficulty retrieving precise vocabulary to describe events.

Idiomatic Language Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures knowledge, retrieval, and oral expression of idioms. Incomplete idiom knowledge will
cause individuals to substitute similar but incorrect words in forming an idiom, thereby causing
communication problems with others.

Syntax Construction Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures oral expression of words, phrases, and sentences using a variety or morphosyntactic
rules

Paragraph Comprehension of Syntax Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures auditory comprehension of syntax in spoken narratives

Grammatical Morphemes Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures metalinguistic knowledge and use of the form and meaning of grammatical
morphemes

Grammaticality Judgment Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures judgment of and ability to correct the grammar of sentences

Nonliteral Language Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures the understanding of the meaning of spoken messages independent of the literal
interpretation of the surface structure.

Meaning from Context Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures derivation of the meaning of words from their oral linguistic context.

Inference Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures use of previously acquired world knowledge to derive meaning from inferences in
spoken language.

Pragmatic Judgment Percentile:       Standard Score:      

This task measures knowledge and use of pragmatic language rules and judgment of their appropriate
application.

CORE COMPOSITE Percentile:       Standard Score:      

LEXICAL/SEMANTIC Percentile:       Standard Score:      
SYNTACTIC Percentile:       Standard Score:      
SUPRALINGUISTIC Percentile:       Standard Score:      
RECEPTIVE Percentile:       Standard Score:      
EXPRESSIVE Percentile:       Standard Score:      
SLP04 (1/08)

The Comprehensive Test of Spoken Language-Second Edition was administered (CASL-2) to assess his
oral language skills using a battery of tests that assess the oral language skills that children and
adolescents need to become literate as well as to succeed in school and in the work environment.

Synonyms: Standard Score: 96 Percentile: 39th        Rating: Average 

Expressive Vocabulary: Standard Score: 86 Percentile: 18th        Rating: Low average 
Grammaticality Judgment: Standard Score: 95 Percentile: 37th        Rating: Average 
Nonliteral Language: Standard Score: 74 Percentile: 5th        Rating: Below average 
Inference: Standard Score: 76 Percentile: 5th        Rating: Below Average 

___overall General Language Ability Index (GLAI) is a Standard Score of 80 and a Percentile of 9th.

____social pragmatic skills are good for general social interactions however he struggles to describe
objects, thoughts and ideas clearly. struggles with understanding the meaning of spoken messages
independent of a literal interpretation. In addition, ___ has difficulty using acquired world knowledge to
derive meaning from inferences in spoken language.