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Del Río Language Screening Test Guide

The Del Río Language Screening Test is designed for children aged 3 to 6 years and aims to identify early disruptions in oral language skills. It consists of five sub-tests assessing vocabulary, sentence repetition, syntactic complexity, comprehension of orders, and understanding of short stories, with both qualitative and quantitative analyses for scoring. The test provides a percentile ranking to evaluate a child's language abilities relative to their age group.

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Del Río Language Screening Test Guide

The Del Río Language Screening Test is designed for children aged 3 to 6 years and aims to identify early disruptions in oral language skills. It consists of five sub-tests assessing vocabulary, sentence repetition, syntactic complexity, comprehension of orders, and understanding of short stories, with both qualitative and quantitative analyses for scoring. The test provides a percentile ranking to evaluate a child's language abilities relative to their age group.

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Technical Sheets Language Test

Name Del Río Language Screening Test


Authors This test was constructed by a team of specialists from the School
Consolidated Sn Felipe Del Río (Texas- USA), directed by Allen Toronto.
There is an English version and a Spanish version.
Age 3 years to 6 years 11 months.
Objective Identify early and quickly minors who show disruptions.
in oral language skills in relation to their age and development
same of the language.
Aspects that verify understanding, recognition of nouns, verbs, complexity
evaluate syntactic, grammatical complexity, evocation and retention and expressive

Characteristics The test consists of 5 sub-tests, which can be used in form.


separated or, in combinations, depending on the information that is desired
obtain, since each sub-test evaluates specific aspects of language
(comprehensive-expressive level) and, of important skills and functions in
the language learning process. The 'audio-verbal' memory is a
predominant function within this test.
Los sub- test aplicados corresponden a: vocabulario, repetición de oraciones
of increasing difficulty in length, repetition of difficult sentences
increasing in morphosyntactic complexity, orders and comprehension of
stories.

QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS:

It corresponds to the interpretation of each sub-test.


Vocabulary: Verify understanding, recognition of nouns and verbs.
They are presented in order of difficulty.
Repetition of sentences: Especially expressive. The difficulty is the
expression of the sentences. There is no syntactic complexity. Memory influences.
verbal, evocation and retention.
Sentences by complexity: Difficulty in syntactic complexity. It is verified that
ability to repeat relatively short sentences, but that increase in
grammatical complexity. It influences verbal memory, recall, and retention.
Orders: Check the ability to perform actions that increase.
quantity. The important thing is the number of actions, not the sequence. Measure the
comprehensive aspect.
Comics or short stories: Comprehensive and expressive. Memory is verified.
to manage information delivered through a short story.

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS:
Each sub-test contains a score:
Vocabulary: 25 points
Repetition of sentences: 8 points
Sentence repetition by complexity: 14 points
Orders: 20 points

Short stories or brief tales: 15 points


The child's responses are recorded on the protocol sheet, then they
observe in the percentile table the score obtained in each sub-test of
according to the age range and the percentile in which it is located
child. If the child is at the 50th percentile, it is fine, since 50 is the
normally, if it is located in the table with a percentile less than 50, it would be
talking about a certain difficulty. Example: a 6-year-old child in the sub-test that
corresponds to vocabulary, obtained a score of 16 points, its percentile
It would be 10, the 16 points correspond to a 50th percentile for a 4-year-old child.
years, therefore, the 6-year-old child would be showing some degree of
difficulty in this sub-test.

PROCEDURE:

Vocabulary: A sheet is presented with three illustrations. The child must


show the one that corresponds to the requested word.
Repetition of sentences: The child must repeat exactly the same
sentences given by the examiner.
Orders: The examiner gives a series of orders that increase in difficulty.
The number of orders placed is evaluated.
Stories: The stories are told in a single opportunity. Then they are formulated.
the corresponding questions. These can be repeated.
Material Set of 27 sheets
Percentile table
Pencils
Leaves
Chair
Table
Materials to execute orders.

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