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About the VeSPA
The Verb and Sentence Processing Assessment (VeSPA) is a newly developed Dutch test battery designed to measure how children understand and produce verbs and sentences. It focuses on key areas that are often challenging for children with developmental language disorder (DLD), such as verb inflection, word order, and reference assignment.
The VeSPA is being developed and validated at the University of Groningen (CLaDis Lab, Department of Neurolinguistics). It aims to provide speech-language therapists and researchers with a detailed view of children’s grammatical and lexical abilities, complementing existing language assessments for Dutch-speaking children aged 4 to 12 years.
Below, you can view example and practice items from each of the four subtests: verb comprehension, verb production, sentence comprehension, and sentence production.
Example_VerbComp_Subtitles.mp4Verb comprehension task
Verb comprehension task
In this task, the child hears a verb and selects the matching picture from four options. The items test understanding of action words and subtle differences in meaning.
Example_VerbProd_Subtitles_Intro&examples.mp4Verb production task
Verb production task
The child sees a picture of an action and is asked to describe what the person is doing in one word. This task measures how well children can retrieve and produce verbs.
Example_SentComp_Intro_Subtitles.mp4Sentence comprehension tASK
Sentence comprehension tASK
The child listens to a sentence and chooses the picture that matches what they heard. The sentences vary in structure and complexity to assess syntactic understanding.
Example_SentProd_Subtitles.mp4Sentence production TASK
Sentence production TASK
The child completes sentences aloud using the correct verb form or word order. This task examines how children construct grammatically accurate sentences.
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