# DISCOVER THE POWER OF TILLS

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## One Test Kit

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Do you wish there was a better way to diagnose language and literacy disorders—including dyslexia?

### TILLS Examiners Kit
- By Nickola Nelson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Elena Plante, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Sc.D., CCC-SLP, & Gillian Hotz, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Would you like to compare oral and written language abilities directly?

Do you wish you had a better way to explain test results?

### Everything You Need to Administer, Score, and Interpret the TILLS Test
1. **Quick Start Guide**: Keep this convenient laminated guide close at hand for an overview of the test, summaries of the subtests, and basic instructions for administration and scoring.
2. **Examiner's Manual**: All the information you need to diagnose with TILLS. Includes insights on administrating, scoring, and interpreting scores for the TILLS subtests.
3. **Technical Manual**: Your essential guide to TILLS development, validity and reliability, and more.
4. **Examiner's Practice Workbook**: Get detailed practice material for scoring each subtest, transforming raw scores into standard scores, and interpreting the scores.
5. **TILLS Forms**: Youll get 25 Examiner Record Forms to record and score student responses, plus 25 Student Response Forms your students will use to record responses on four TILLS subtests.

### 15 TILLS Subtests
1. Vocabulary Awareness  
2. Phonemic Awareness  
3. Story Retelling  
4. Nonword Repetition  
5. Nonword Spelling  
6. Listening Comprehension  
7. Reading Comprehension  
8. Following Directions  
9. Delayed Story Retelling  
10. Nonword Reading  
11. Reading Fluency  
12. Written Expression (yields 3 scores)  
13. Social Communication  
14. Digit Span Forward  
15. Digit Span Backward

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## How It Works

Here's how to use the TILLS Examiners Kit to screen for and diagnose language and literacy disorders, including dyslexia:
- **Step 1**: Administer all 15 TILLS subtests.
- **Step 2**: Complete the first page of the Examiner's Record Form, a chart that helps you score the subtests, compare the scores to those of the student's same-age peers, and compare the sound/word composite score to the sentence discourse composite score.
- **Step 3**: Complete the Identification Chart to determine if the student has a disorder.
- **Step 4**: Complete the Profile Chart for an at-a-glance, big-picture look at the student's current language and literacy skills in comparison to the quadrant model on which the TILLS is based.

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### TILLS Technical Data

| AGE GROUPS               | SENSITIVITY | SPECIFICITY |
| ------------------------ | ----------- | ------------ |
| 6-year-olds              | 84%         | 82%          |
| 7-year-olds              | 84%         | 86%          |
| 8-year-olds              | 97%         | 100%         |
| 9-year-olds              | 83%         | 81%          |
| 10-year-olds             | 81%         | 81%          |
| 11-year-olds             | 86%         | 82%          |
| 12-year-olds             | 83%         | 100%         |
| 13-year-olds             | 84%         | 86%          |
| 14- to 18-year-olds      | 87%         | 87%          |

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## Top 5 Benefits of TILLS
1. More comprehensive assessment: TILLS is the only test that assesses both oral AND written language with a unique framework that shows how these skills relate to each other.
2. More accurate diagnosis: The manual provides diagnostic accuracy in age bands meaningful to the development of language and literacy skills.
3. One test is best: With TILLS, you get the full picture of oral and written language skills with just one test kit.
4. Powerful TILLS profile: TILLS profiles help communicate with others, pinpoint what to work on, diagnose and recognize profiles of disorders, and easily track changes in specific areas of concern.
5. A real time-saver: If you're an experienced clinician, you can administer TILLS in 90 minutes or less, allowing you to spend less time testing and more time helping students.

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