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The Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale
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The Rossetti Infant-Toddler Language Scale
Test Design
Diagnostic Purpose
Developed by:
Basals and Ceilings
Scoring the Rossetti
Administration Procedures
The Rossetti is composed of 6 subtests:
Interaction-Attachment, Pragmatics, Gesture, Play, Language Comprehension, and Language Expression.
Louis Rossetti, Ph.D.
August 1990
Published by: LinguiSystems
*Criterion-referenced
Assess and identify:
pre-verbal and verbal areas of language development, communication and interaction
- Testing Environment
- Procedure
- Basals and Ceilings
Test Items are considered "passed" if they are observed in any of the following ways:
O = Observe
E = Elicit
R = Report
Start Assessment:
6 months below child's chronological age
Age Range
Materials Required
Test can assess newborn infants to toddlers from birth to 36 months old
Theoretical Construct
- A parent questionnaire in both English and Spanish on CD-ROM
- An examiner’s manual
- A scale scoring sheet.
- Additional materials needed for assessment listed in the appendix portion of the manual.
Child's Developmental Progress --> Child's Language performance
Advantages
Disadvantages
Validity
Reliability
Standardization Population
- The tested skills are relevant to early language development.
- Important skills in interaction, attention, play, comprehension, and expression for language development
- Criterion-referenced test
- Compares the individual’s ability of successfully demonstrating the test behaviors to the test behaviors
- The purpose is to assess mastery of the test behaviors.
- Does not contain reliability scores
- Legitimacy of the test items assessed
- Test items were developed from various sources
- Consistency of repeatability
- Reflect current information on child development
- Parent questionnaire
- Easy to administer
- Natural testing environment = comfortable
- No new editions
- Test does not account for motor deficits in children
- Use of receptive language abilities needed