Interviews & Rating Scales

ALDeQ - Ages 4-7

Alberta Language and Development Questionnaire (Paradis et al., 2010, 2013). Language/culture-neutral parent questionnaire about a child's early milestones, current first language abilities, behaviours and activity preferences and family history of language and learning disabilities, with norm referencing. Appropriate for use with children aged 4.5 to 7.5 years, with between 4 months to 40 months of exposure to English as a second language.

ALEQ - Ages 4-8

The Alberta Language Environment Questionnaire (Paradis, 2011). Parent questionnaire provides context around the child's second language proficiency with questions related to a child's language environment: length of second language exposure, language use at home among family members, child's engagement in language rich activities, parent fluency in the second language and parent education.

Note: Examples of some language and literacy activities are dated. Using more current examples when asking about child engagement in these activities is recommended.

ALEQ - Ages 6-12

The Alberta Language Environment Questionnaire (Paradis, 2020). Parent questionnaire provides contextual around the child's second language proficiency with questions related to a child's language environment: length of second language exposure, language use at home among family members, child's engagement in language rich activities, parent fluency in the second language and parent education.

Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (Marian et al., 2007, 2020). Questionnaire gathers information about bilingual and trilingual individuals. LEAP-Q is currently available in 37 languages and dialects and can be administered via interview, hardcopy, or online.

Q-BEx

Quantifying the Bilingual EXperience (DeCat, et al., 2022).

This collection of user-friendly, online questionnaires (and their associated back-end calculators) were designed to provide measures of current and cumulative language experience in real time. The questionnaires are available in 14 languages (with 17 additional language versions in development), and vary in length and level of detail: the shortest version will be useful when parental consultation is challenging; the longest version will yield more fine-grained measures to enable in-depth enquiries.

COST Action IS0804: Questionnaire for Parents of Bilingual Children (Tuller, 2015). Questionnaire gathers information about possible developmental risk factors and information related to quantity and quality of language exposure. The PaBiQ has been translated and adapted to at least 22 linguistic, clinical and research contexts. Contact questionnaire developer(s) for access.

PaBiQ-IT Ages 0-3

COST Action IS0804: Questionnaire for Parents of Bilingual Children - Infant and Toddler Version (Gatt, et al, 2015). Questionnaire gathers information about possible developmental risk factors and information related to quantity and quality of language exposure.

Critical Questions - Early Intervention

Dr. Catherine Crowley developed the critical questions over the course of her clinical practice. The Early Intervention version of these questions are more specific to early intervention evaluations. She has found them to be the most effective and valid pieces of information needed by the evaluator in order to distinguish language difference from disorder, especially in culturally and linguistically diverse populations. In addition, this set of questions includes questions supported by research as being the one of the most accurate measures of language disorder (Restrepo, 1998). Currently available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

LUI - Ages 18-57 months

Language Use Inventory (O'Neill, 2009) is a standardized, hardcopy and/or online, parent report questionnaire to assess pragmatic language development in children 18-47 months of age. Currently available in 6 language with 9 many language versions in development. Fee based.

Questions or Suggestions?

Research in the area of multilingual language assessment is ongoing worldwide. Additional resources and information will continue to be added as it becomes available. Your suggestions are questions are welcomed and valued! Click to access feedback form.

Page updated

Report abuse