Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test 3 (SPELT-3) by Janet Dawson, Ph.D., Connie Stout, Ph.D., and Julia Eyer, Ph.D. Approximately 7% of otherwise normally developing children experience language impairment. Research shows that these children have particular problems with morphology and syntax. The SPELT-3 assesses morphosyntactic skills in children aged 4-0 to 9-11. It requires the child to look at color photographs of everyday situations and familiar objects and answer simple questions about each one. These questions, presented orally by the examiner, elicit specific morphological syntactic structures:      Preposition      Plural      Possessive noun and pronoun      Reflexive pronoun      Subject pronoun      Direct/indirect object      Present progressive aspect      Regular and irregular past tense      Modal auxiliaries      Contractible/uncontractible copula      Contractible/uncontractible auxiliary      Negative      Conjoined sentence      "Wh" question      Interrogative reversal      Negative infinitive phrase      Propositional complement      Relative clause      Front embedded clause The 54 stimulus pictures (4 by 6 inches) are provided in a convenient spiralbound booklet. Test questions are listed and answers are recorded on the SPELT-3 Response Form. The test can be administered in just 15 to 20 minutes, and scoring requires just a few minutes more. The Manual includes explicit scoring guidelines, listing expected responses and typical errors. A separate chapter addresses African American vernacular response variations. For each child assessed, the SPELT-3 generates a raw score, standard score, confidence interval, percentile rank, percentile band, and test-age equivalent. Age-stratified norms are based on a sample of 1,580 children (aged 4-0 through 9-11), with demographic characteristics approximating those of the U.S. population. Slightly more than 7% of the children in the sample were identified as language impaired. By giving speech-language pathologists a systematic way to sample specific language forms, the SPELT-3 makes it much easier to identify children who perform significantly below their peers in the production of morphosyntactic structures. Test results can be used to qualify children for services and to determine the kind of services needed. Widely used and recognized for its clinical utility, the SPELT-3 is ideal for speech-language pathologists who must evaluate many children in a limited time period.