Kindergarten Language Screening Test (KLST-2)

This individually administered screening test helps you identify children who need further diagnostic testing to determine whether they have language deficits that will accelerate academic failure. In 15 minutes, you’ll be able to identify a child who may fail academically because of a language deficit.

 

The Kindergarten Language Screening Test–Second Edition (KLST-2) is a thorough, quick language screener based on the original KLST, which has a 25-year history of use in the field. This edition is completely restandardized and updated, some items have been modified, and the test has been normed.

 

You will find this to be a user-friendly screening test that employs a number of psycholinguistically relevant tasks.

 

Assess expressive and receptive language competence by screening the child’s ability to:

 

Thoroughly researched, the KLST–2 helps you obtain all of this information for individuals ages 3-6 through 6-11. The KLST–2 has strong predictive validity. The test was normed on a sample of 519 children, ages 4-0 through 6-11. Reliability coefficients through four test–retest studies were .82 or above. Criterion-related validity has been demonstrated through three studies that demonstrate correlations with the PLS–3, TOLD–P:3, and CELF–P.