New Reynell Developmental Language Scales: Child Speech and Language Assessment Data

More than 1,200 children aged 2 years to 7 years 5 months in the UK were used to standardize this fourth edition assessment. The New Reynell Developmental Language Scales (NRDLS) is designed for speech and language therapists to identify language delay and impairment in young children. It includes separate Comprehension and Production scales and a Multilingual Toolkit for adapting the assessment for children for whom English is an additional language.

Use Cases

• Identify language delay and impairment in children based on the assessment's standardized scales.
• Compare a child's language comprehension and production skills based on the parallel sections within the scales.
• Adapt language assessments for multilingual children based on the concepts in the Multilingual Toolkit.
• Research child language acquisition and indicators of impairment based on the revised, research-informed edition.

Strengths

• Standardized on a sample of more than 1,200 children.
• Revised based on recent research on child language acquisition and user feedback.
• Includes a Multilingual Toolkit for adapting assessments for linguistic diversity.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its UK standardization sample.

Provenance

Source

Susan Edwards

Collection Method

Assessment scales standardized on a UK child population.

Geography

United Kingdom