CASL: performance comparison interpretation

Review the following rich material on the CASL™:

Lexical/semantic Tests

Basic concepts & synonyms

  • No recall or retrieval
  • No context
  • Receptive

Antonyms

  • Requires retrieval
  • No context
  • Expressive

Sentence completion & idiomatic language

  • Requires retrieval
  • Includes context or cue
  • Expressive
Syntactic tests

Paragraph comprehension & sentence comprehension

  • No recall or retrieval
  • Includes context
  • Receptive

Syntax construction

  • Retrieval, but structure not specific
  • Context provided
  • Expressive

Grammatical morphemes

  • Retrieval, structure specific
  • No context
  • Expressive

Grammaticality judgment

  • Judgment of specific structure
  • Retrieval, structure specific
  • Context provided
  • Expressive
Supralinguistic & pragmatic tests

Inference

  • Make an inference, given a context, using world knowledge

Meaning from context

  • Make an inference, using provided information

Ambiguous sentences

  • Understand multiple meanings of spoken message

Nonliteral language

  • Understand intended meaning of spoken message

Pragmatic judgment

  • Understand social situation & respond appropriately