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Purpose
Assesses listening comprehension
Authors
Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk, PhD, and Amber M. Klein, PhD
Administration Formats
Additional Details
Evaluate a Client's Ability to Listen and Recall Information
The OPUS is a measure of auditory comprehension that evaluates a person's ability to listen to passages read aloud and recall information about them. It also measures memory skills, which are integral to listening comprehension.
Features and benefits
- Shares the same underlying Integrative Language Theory as the Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, Second Edition (CASL-2) and the Oral and Written Language Scales, Second Edition (OWLS-II).
- Helps answer a variety of referral questions related to listening.
- Demonstrates how well individuals can integrate and apply language skills.
Test structure
- Assesses comprehension of spoken language in the natural context.
- Evaluates the ability to integrate and apply knowledge in three structural categories of language:
- Lexical/symantic: Knowledge and use of words and word combinations.
- Syntactic: Knowledge and use of grammar.
- Supralinguistic: Knowledge and use of language in which meaning is not directly available from the surface lexical and syntactic information.
- Consists of 17 passages divided into six Item Sets. Each Item Set has five passages and up to 44 items.
- Passages are taken from published works and created to reflect the type of material one is likely to encounter in everyday life.
- Features Item Analysis Worksheets to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
Technical information
- Standardized on a sample of 1,517 individuals ages 5-21 years.
- Has a strong internal consistency and test-retest rater reliability.
- Conormed with the CASL-2.
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