ABSTRACT The Brisbane Evidence-Based Language Test (EBLT) incorporates verbal fluency tasks (animals and words starting with ‘F’) although it does not currently provide cut-off scores for the verbal fluency subtest. The aim is to gain speech pathologists’ perceptions of the current scoring of the verbal fluency subtest (i.e., initial survey) and develop new verbal fluency cut-offs. An online survey study design was implemented and involved three online survey stages (1) initial survey, (2) weekly surveys and (3) final survey. Forty-two speech pathologists (age range: 23–66 years) participated in the initial survey and 23 clinicians participated in the weekly surveys. The verbal fluency cut-offs were calculated through diagnostic receiver operating characteristic sensitivity and specificity analysis comparing verbal fluency test scores with the binary (yes/no) language reference standard result. A cut-off score of ≤6 words on each task (animal task and words starting with ‘F’ task) was indicative of impaired performance. When not stratified by age, the combined animal and words starting with ‘F’ task cut-off score had a lower cut-off of ≤15 indicative of impairment. Overall diagnostic accuracy was greater when the animal and ‘F’ words tasks were combined. Participants reported that the new cut-offs were helpful, appropriate, in line with their clinical impression, patient presentation and met their needs as clinicians. The findings of this study indicate speech pathologists found the new verbal fluency cut-offs to be a useful addition in informing their decision-making in their clinical language assessments.