Laureate is now offering a FREE Syntax Tests CD to help professionals and parents assess 33 basic grammatical forms essential to sentence comprehension and production. Built-in reports can you determine whether a student could benefit from two of Laureate’s programs, LanguageLinks: Syntax Assessment & Intervention and Prepositions!
The six-level LanguageLinks series and its companion Prepositions! are research-based
programs designed to help students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and language-learning disabilities as well as English
language learners build their language and become better communicators.
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Laureate's Syntax Tests CD provides three ways to test children and adults on their understanding of basic sentence forms:
Full Test
This option assesses all 33 syntactic forms in one continuous test (25-30 minutes)
Screening Test
This option tests 17 pre-selected highly problematic syntactic forms (10-15 minutes)
Individual Module Tests
This option tests any one of the 33 syntactic forms (less than 2 minutes each)
The following list shows the grammatical forms that are assessed. The asterisked Modules are those included in the screening test.
Description |
Example Forms |
Program |
| 1. *Accusative 1st & 2nd Person Pronouns | Me/You | LanguageLinks 1 |
| 2. Noun-Verb Agreement Copular ‘Be’ | Is/Are | LanguageLinks 1 |
| 3. Negation | Is/Is Not | LanguageLinks 2 |
| 4. *Nominative 3rd Person Pronouns | He/She/They | LanguageLinks 2 |
| 5. Prenominal Determiners | These/Those | LanguageLinks 3 |
| 6. *Noun-Verb Agreement Auxiliary ‘Be’ | Is/Are Verb+(-ing) | LanguageLinks 3 |
| 7. *Pronominal Possessive Pronouns | Our/Your | LanguageLinks 4 |
| 8. Noun-Verb Agreement 3rd Person | Has/Have | LanguageLinks 4 |
| 9. *Future Will/Aux. ‘Be’/Past -ed | Will Verb/Is V+(-ing)/V+(-ed) | LanguageLinks 5 |
| 10. Noun-Verb Agreement 3rd Person | Noun+Verb(-s)/Noun(-s)+Verb | LanguageLinks 5 |
| 11. Independent Possessive Pronouns | His/Hers/Theirs | LanguageLinks 6 |
| 12. *Present Passive | Is Verb+(-ed) By (Passive) | LanguageLinks 6 |
| 13. Spatial Prepositions | In/On/Under | Prepositions! |
| 14. *Spatial Prepositions | In Front Of/Between/Behind | Prepositions! |
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