- CASLLS
- Cottage Acquisition Scales for Listening, Language & Speech
The CASLLS is an exciting new instrument that combines the power of auditory skill development with speech and language skill development. Using the CASLLS, the professional will be able to:
Eliminate separate forms for listening, language and speech objectives and promote the use of an integrated approach. Easily inform parents about progress. Teach using a developmental model and authentic assessment. Reduce planning time for therapy and classroom instruction; streamline long-term planning and IEP development. Promote consistency from year to year, teacher to teacher. What's Covered?
Listening - from sound awareness to comprehension of paragraphs, including phonetic listening skills. Speech - the CASLLS tracks objectives from the renowned motor speech program of Dr. Daniel Ling (both phonetic and phonologic) and also links these objectives to phonetic listening development. Language - Pre-verbal language through complex sentences, including pragmatic development. Cognition - those cognitive skills that are most linked to language acquisition are charted parallel to listening and language skills. The CASLLS include 5 separate criterion-referenced scales based on the research in normal child language acquisition. Behaviors are divided into convenient age spans that can be used in relationship to listening age and chronologic age.
Pre-Verbal - Designed for children with no words, it allows the professional to monitor the progress of pre-verbal behaviors. Pre-Sentence - For children who have started speaking, it monitors the emergence of a full range of semantic intentions through 2-3 word combinations. Simple Sentence - For children who are ready to develop complete simple sentences, it includes basic grammatical morphemes, the development of conversation, and the earliest examples of complex language. Complex Sentence - For children ready to develop more sophisticated language abilities, it samples a broad variety of discourse skills, increasingly difficult question forms, elaborated noun phrases and subordination. Sounds & Speech - A companion instrument that may be used at the same time as one of the other scales to monitor the development of sound awareness, phonetic listening discriminations, phonetic and phonologic speech.
- Sunshine Cottage has been kind enough to provide this brochure for more information. You can also visit the CASLLS page on their website for the latest and greatest.
103 Tuleta, San Antonio, TX 78212
info@sunshinecottage.org
(210) 824-0579
On
Sep. 24, 2005, Dr. Wilkes died suddenly. I am
blessed to have known her, and am honored to be able to provide page with
information about the CASLLS. 