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Cottage Acquisition Scales for
Listening, Language & Speech
 The CASLLS is an exciting new instrument
that combines the power of auditory 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 longterm planning and IEP development.
- Promote continuity from pre-verbal
to complex language skills.
- Provide 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
separte criterion-referenced scales based on the research in normal child language
acquistion. 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.
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