Tests designed to assess language behavior and abilities. They include tests of vocabulary, comprehension, grammar and functional use of language, e.g., Development Sentence Scoring, Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Scale, Parsons Language Sample, utah Test of language development, michigan Language Inventory and Verbal language development Scale, illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, Northwestern Syntax Screening Test, Peabody Picture vocabulary Test, Ammons Full-Range Picture vocabulary Test, and Assessment of Children's Language comprehension.