TECEL Complete Kit

• Ages: 2 weeks to 24 months
• Norm-referenced: standard scores, percentiles, and age equivalents for young children; for older children, adolescents, and adults with language delays, there are only age equivalents
• Testing Time: 15 to 45 minutes
• Administration: Individual observation and/or parent/caregiver interview
• Test of Early Communication and Emerging Language Complete Kit: Examiner’s Manual, Picture Plates, 25 Examiner Record Booklets, 25 Informal Assessment and Intervention Plans and an Object Kit, all in a sturdy storage box. (2011)
• Qualification Level: B

Now you can assess the language abilities of infants and toddlers; or test older individuals with moderate to severe language delays. The Test of Early Communication and Emerging Language (TECEL) assesses the earliest communication behaviors and emerging language abilities in infants and toddlers up to 24 months old. It is well-constructed, reliable, practical, research-based, and theoretically sound.

TECEL is a revision and standardization of Mary Blake Huer’s Nonspeech Test, a well-regarded assessment used with both typically developing young children and older individuals with moderate-to-severe language delays.

Use TECEL to: (1) assess and chart communication and language strengths and weaknesses and design intervention plans, (2) make estimates about future language development, and (3) serve as a research tool for investigating early communication and emerging language.

Administration

Only professionals experienced in test administration and analyzing the results of diagnostic instruments should use TECEL:

• Speech Language Pathologists
• Early Intervention and Early Childhood Professionals
• Special Educators
• Psychologists
• Diagnosticians
• Assistive Technology and AAC Specialists
• Other related professionals

Statistical and Technical Characteristics

The TECEL was normed on 558 children between the ages of 2 weeks and 24 months from 28 states. The sample is demographically representative according to U.S. Census projections for 2010. The TECEL evidences a consistently high degree of reliability related to content (.94), time (.87), and scorer differences (.82). The TECEL possesses relatively little test error and provides strong qualitative and quantitative evidence of validity, including high correlations with age and cognitive and language abilities.

Special Features

• Includes receptive and expressive color-coded items for easy diagnostic analysis of results.
• Presents flexible options for administration: Interview, Observation, and/or a combination of both.
• Recognizes the continuum from pre-linguistic communication behaviors to symbolic forms in emerging language.
• Assesses individuals who communicate by means other than speech and is suitable for verbal and nonverbal respondents.
• Appropriate for all ages, test materials and interview questions are cross-cultural in content and free of jargon or difficult to understand concepts.
• Includes Informal Assessments and Intervention Plans to guide clinicians in analyzing performance on the test, developing recommendations, and generating an Intervention Plan.
• Includes case examples in the manual.
• Contains all necessary art and objects to administer the test in the kit.
• Presents illustrated, full-color pictures are appealing and laminated for durability.
• Certified non-toxic test objects have been tested for choke hazard.

Test of Early Communication and Emerging Language

• Examiner’s Manual
• Picture Plates
• 25 Examiner Record Booklets
• 25 Informal Assessment and Intervention Plans
• Object Kit
• Sturdy storage box
• (2011)