*The Renfrew Action Picture Test cards are now available for free, to assist with online assessments and the ease of administrating the test, but in order to fully score the RAPT the pack will need to be purchased. You can find the downloadable cards under ‘Support Materials’ on the Routledge.com product page*

Since its first publication in 1967, the Renfrew Action Picture Test has been a reach-for assessment used by a range of professionals dedicated to the speech and language development of children between 3.0–8.5 years of age.

Widely used by Speech and Language Therapists

Pathologists, SENCOs, and teachers, among other professionals, the test covers words used to convey information (i.e. nouns, verbs, prepositions); present, past and future tenses; irregular forms of plural and past tenses; simple and complex sentence construction; and passive voice. The test provides an Information and Grammar score that can be benchmarked against a UK school population.

This 5th edition has been fully updated, including revision of scoring guidelines, modernisation of images and, through an extensive nation-wide programme, fully re-standardised against a modern school population, making RAPT a trusted first-line tool in speech and language assessment.

Intended for use in educational settings and/or therapy contexts under the supervision of an adult. This is not a toy.

Table of Contents

10 picture cards depicting a range of everyday scenarios.

Instruction booklet providing guidance on administration.

Scoring Guides.

Scoring Form.

• Provides an easy to administer, quick to score, standardised assessment of a child’s expressive vocabulary. • Fully revised with fresh colour images and replacement words, where necessary, to modernise the test and ensure items are familiar and appropriate for all socio-economic, ethnic and geographic groups. • Test has been extended upwards, providing an assessment tool for the whole primary age range, for children aged 3.0 – 11.0 years old. • Test has been re-standardised against a contemporary school population.

The age level of consecutive speech used in retelling a story can be assessed from the information content, sentence length and grammatical usage of this revised test. The test includes a coloured picture story book, a scoring form to photocopy and a manual, but also requires the use of audio recording equipment. Catherine Renfrew's three tests have been used for many years and provide a means of assessing children's speech and language. All tests are suitable for use with 3-8 year olds are norm referred to enable therapists to produce comparative results. Norms are given at six-monthly intervals for both the Action Picture Test and Word finding Vocabulary and monthly for the Bus Story Test. Intended for use in educational settings and/or therapy contexts under the supervision of an adult. This is not a toy.