South Tyneside Assessment of Syntactic Structures (STASS 2)

Expressive language STASS is a rapid assessment used to highlight possible areas of difficulty within a child's expressive language.

It comes in a laminated booklet form with 32 coloured pictures which are presented to the child with one, or occasionally two, questions. Each question is designed to elicit one or more grammatical structures.

• Child's responses produce a corpus of 37 utterances to be analysed.
• Designed to elicit structures at clause, phrase and word levels in stages I–IV of LARSP plus a range of auxiliary verbs, pronouns and prepositions.
• Profiles are included in the structures provided by normal 3- to-5-years olds when using the assessments.
• Easy to score, with photocopiable assessment forms provided.