Adolescent Language Screening Test (ALST)

Denise Morgan and Arthur Guilford

The Adolescent Language Screening Test (ALST) provides speech-language pathologists and other interested professionals with a rapid (less than 15 minutes in administrative time), thorough method for individually screening adolescents' (ages 11 to 17) speech and language.

The ALST dimensions of language use, content, and form are screened by seven subtests: Pragmatics, Receptive Vocabulary, Concepts, Expressive Vocabulary, Sentence Formulation, Morphology, and Phonology. The results of this screening device provide the clinician with a solid foundation for recommending a total communication evaluation and outline the language dimensions on which extension testing should focus.

Complete ALST Kit includes Administration Manual, Picture Book, and 25 Test Booklets, all in a sturdy storage container. (1984)