PHAB2 Primary Assessment

The Phonological Assessment Battery (Primary) is comprehensive compilation of tests for assessment of phonological awareness.

This is an essential toolkit for SENCOs, specialist literacy teachers and educational psychologists, it identifies phonological difficulties encountered in learning to read, assessing in detail to enable planning of appropriate interventions. The engaging design and illustrations make the tool appealing to participants.

It has been newly standardised to reflect up-to-date phonological abilities of UK children.

PhAB2 Primary has made revisions to the six subtests contained in the previous version:

• The Alliteration Test – assesses a child’s ability to isolate the initial sounds in single syllable words.
• The Naming Speed Tests – assesses a child’s speed of phonological production. These tests include the Picture Naming Test and the Digit Naming Test.
• The Rhyme Test – assesses a child’s ability to identify the rhyme in single syllable words.
• The Spoonerisms Test – assesses whether a child can segment single syllable words and then synthesize the segments to provide new words or word combinations.
• The Fluency Tests – assesses a child’s retrieval of phonological information from long-term memory.
• The Non-Word Reading Test – assesses a child’s ability to decode letter strings.

PhAB2 Primary also includes four new subtests:

• Blending - combining sounds to make a spoken word
• Phonological Working Memory - a child's ability to use their short term memory for phonological segments
• Phoneme Segmentation - separating spoken words into their constituent phonemes
• Phoneme Deletion - the ability to anticipate how a word would sound if one phoneme is deleted

Targeted testing for 5-6 and 7-11 year olds. If you are looking for a tool for 11-14year olds, the original PhAB covers this age group (52785).