Tumbli's Language Comprehension Assessment

Brought to you by a team of registered and certified Speech and Language Therapists (Pathologists) with decades of combined international experience from The Children’s Place Speech & Language Therapy in London, UK.

For use by parents, Speech and Language Therapists (Pathologists), caretakers or anyone involved in a child’s communication journey. Talking with Tumbli: Language Comprehension Assessment is used to gauge a child’s ability to infer or interpret the meaning of abstract questions. The app is based on research completed by Blank, Rose and Berlin (1978).

Talking with Tumbli: Language Comprehension Assessment’s unique features:

• Assesses a child’s language comprehension against expected age of development
• Can be used for both assessment and practice of a child’s inferencing skills
• Fun and unique pictures to work through to enhance understanding and engagement

An introduction to the 4 levels

• Level 1 – Label. Labelling objects that are in the picture develops at approximately 3 years of age
• Level 2 – Describe. Describing less obvious features in the picture develops at approximately 4 years of age
• Level 3 – Think. Making deductions or generalizations about situations develops at approximately 4.5 years of age
• Level 4 – Reason. Making predictions about future events from past experiences develops at approximately 5 years of age.


The app works through 6 scenes asking questions of the child with 4 varied levels of inference difficulty. The fun and exciting artwork in the app helps keep children engaged throughout the assessment. The assessment can be paused and resumed at a later date with profiles saved to the local device. This feature offers a comparison to gauge the expected age of development.

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