This is a solid instrument for what it does--which is exactly one thing. It's a measure of oral vocabulary, which some like to use as a proxy for verbal cognition. It uses visual supports, which is quite unlike the WISC, and consists solely of pointing responses, also quite unlike the WISC. If an expressive measure was given, it was probably the co-normed EVT, which has similar minimal language demands.

...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...