Preschool Language Scale - Fifth Edition (PLS-5 UK)

PLS-5^UK offers you a comprehensive developmental language assessment, with items that range from pre-verbal, interaction-based skills to emerging language and early literacy.

How different is PLS-5^UK?

• Streamlined Administration: Some tasks were combined in PLS-5^UK to minimise switching between presentation of manipulables and the Picture Manual.
• Improvements to test items: PLS-5^UK includes modifications that better elicit target responses and make the items easier to administer and score. Approximately 25% of the items on PLS-5^UK are new; 50% have been modified based on clinician feedback and expert review; 25% are unchanged.
• Addition of growth scale values: PLS-5^UK now includes Growth Scale Values that were developed so that you can track progress for children from birth to age 7.
• Now to Age 7: Now you are able to assess language from emerging communication behaviours through emerging language and literacy skills to age 7:11. This will provide a single, standardised measure for children with significant deficits who are being tracked from a very young age.
• Updated articulation screener: You can now test multiple phonemes within words. PLS-5^UK includes picture stimuli to elicit target words. The screener takes less than 2 minutes to administer.

Features and benefits

• Administer PLS-5^UK to test a full range of language skills across the developmental language spectrum
• Link the Home Communication Questionnaire items directly to test tasks to serve as a baseline for testing. This frees testing time for observing natural interactions between parents and children from Birth–2:0  
• Target interaction, attention, vocal/gestural behaviours, and different levels of play for children from Birth to 2:11
• Assess preschool children with new items for letter naming and book handling, and updated school readiness skills
• Address a wider variety of early play behaviours
• Better elicit target responses due to test item modifications that are based on examiner feedback
• Minimise transitions between the play and picture pointing tasks now that test items with manipulatives are grouped to streamline administration
• Engage children with the new Picture Manual featuring large, colourful illustrations
• Many of the manipulatives are plastic (including Mr. Bear) so they can be wiped clean after each administration

Basic kit: This is the upgrade kit for those who previously purchased PLS-4 and already have the manips set. Please note you will also need to purchase the PLS-5 manips set below, or source your own items.