However, the Battelle Developmental Inventory is administered by a variety of professionals for example, early childhood educators, special educators and speech pathologists. The PLS-5 is designed to measure both receptive and expressive language. The instrument integrates the assessment of prelinguistic communication, semantics, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, and integrative language skills. The PLS- 5 includes information to probe gestural communication, theory of the mind, and emergent literacy. The content of the scales includes age appropriate skills for older children through ages 7 years and 11 months. The BDI-2 communication domain is designed to measure how effectively a child receives and expresses information and ideas through verbal and nonverbal means. The measure includes expressive and receptive subdomains for birth to age 8
However, the Battelle Developmental Inventory is administered by a variety of professionals for example, early childhood educators, special educators and speech pathologists. The PLS-5 is designed to measure both receptive and expressive language. The instrument integrates the assessment of prelinguistic communication, semantics, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, and integrative language skills. The PLS- 5 includes information to probe gestural communication, theory of the mind, and emergent literacy. The content of the scales includes age appropriate skills for older children through ages 7 years and 11 months. The BDI-2 communication domain is designed to measure how effectively a child receives and expresses information and ideas through verbal and nonverbal means. The measure includes expressive and receptive subdomains for birth to age 8