The Child Language Committee of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) is dedicated to improving the lives of children with communication and language challenges and their families. We advocate for evidence-based and linguistically-culturally responsive assessment and intervention practices and wish to highlight the speech pathologist's role in children's successful literacy acquisition journey.

Members of the Child Language Committee have created a list of standardized language and literacy tests in different languages. The list of tests is not exhaustive either in terms of the range of languages, nor the tests included. Members of the CLC do not endorse any of the tests included in the list. The list was created for clinical and research use, and not for marketing or promotion of the tests or their publishers. This list currently includes the following languages: Arabic / Croatian / English / Greek / Icelandic / Irish / Portugese (Brazil)

You can download the list for free. 

If you would like to contribute to the development of the list by adding information about tests available in an additional language or supplementing the tests in an existing list, feel free to contact Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic or Eleni Theodorou and share your data with us using the template available in a separate file (below).

Members of the Child Language Committee were proud to present at the 32nd World Congress of the IALP: Together Toward Tomorrow (Auckland, 2023)

W1.03 Challenges of Adapting Language/Literacy Tests and Procedures for Children and Adolescents across Cultures, Languages, and Dialects. Presented by: Dr Nickola Nelson, Dr Jelena Kuvač Kraljević, Dr Jóhanna T. Einarsdóttir, and Dr Elena Theodorou. Download the slides below. 

Workshop 411 (Thurs 24/8). Digital Literacy: Opportunities and Challenges for Children, Adolescents, and Professionals. Presented by: Dr Barbara Ehren [Adolescents and Fake News], Dr Nickola Nelson [Digital Formats with Children]. Download the handouts below.

Members of the Child Language Committee proudly presented some of their work at the 33rd World Congress of the IALP in Malta.

Digital Literacy:  What, Why, How for SLPs/SLTs Working with Youth

For a full list of references - please click on the blue button below! 

Marleen Westerveld presented a "Call to Action  - Involving Adolescents in Research" - in response to Ehren: Engaging Adolescent Language Disorders: A Critical Focus Now and in the Future. A copy of the slides including the full reference list can be downloaded below.