diff --git a/src/services/navigationBar.ts b/src/services/navigationBar.ts
index 9051ee80399..423ee5e58a6 100644
--- a/src/services/navigationBar.ts
+++ b/src/services/navigationBar.ts
@@ -50,8 +50,9 @@ module ts.NavigationBar {
                     case SyntaxKind.ArrayBindingPattern:
                         forEach((<BindingPattern>node).elements, visit);
                         break;
+                    case SyntaxKind.BindingElement:
                     case SyntaxKind.VariableDeclaration:
-                        if (isBindingPattern(node)) {
+                        if (isBindingPattern((<VariableDeclaration>node).name)) {
                             visit((<VariableDeclaration>node).name);
                             break;
                         }
@@ -262,17 +263,34 @@ module ts.NavigationBar {
                     return createItem(node, getTextOfNode((<FunctionLikeDeclaration>node).name), ts.ScriptElementKind.functionElement);
 
                 case SyntaxKind.VariableDeclaration:
-                    if (isBindingPattern((<VariableDeclaration>node).name)) {
-                        break;
-                    }
-                    if (isConst(node)) {
-                        return createItem(node, getTextOfNode((<VariableDeclaration>node).name), ts.ScriptElementKind.constElement);
-                    }
-                    else if (isLet(node)) {
-                        return createItem(node, getTextOfNode((<VariableDeclaration>node).name), ts.ScriptElementKind.letElement);
+                case SyntaxKind.BindingElement:
+                    var variableDeclarationNode: Node;
+                    var name: Node;
+
+                    if (node.kind === SyntaxKind.BindingElement) {
+                        name = (<BindingElement>node).name;
+                        variableDeclarationNode = node;
+                        // binding elements are added only for variable declarations
+                        // bubble up to the containing variable declaration
+                        while (variableDeclarationNode && variableDeclarationNode.kind !== SyntaxKind.VariableDeclaration) {
+                            variableDeclarationNode = variableDeclarationNode.parent;
+                        }
+                        Debug.assert(variableDeclarationNode !== undefined);
                     }
                     else {
-                        return createItem(node, getTextOfNode((<VariableDeclaration>node).name), ts.ScriptElementKind.variableElement);
+                        Debug.assert(!isBindingPattern((<VariableDeclaration>node).name));
+                        variableDeclarationNode = node;
+                        name = (<VariableDeclaration>node).name;
+                    }
+
+                    if (isConst(variableDeclarationNode)) {
+                        return createItem(node, getTextOfNode(name), ts.ScriptElementKind.constElement);
+                    }
+                    else if (isLet(variableDeclarationNode)) {
+                        return createItem(node, getTextOfNode(name), ts.ScriptElementKind.letElement);
+                    }
+                    else {
+                        return createItem(node, getTextOfNode(name), ts.ScriptElementKind.variableElement);
                     }
                 
                 case SyntaxKind.Constructor:
diff --git a/tests/cases/fourslash/scriptLexicalStructureBindingPatterns.ts b/tests/cases/fourslash/scriptLexicalStructureBindingPatterns.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2b363bfad3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cases/fourslash/scriptLexicalStructureBindingPatterns.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/// <reference path='fourslash.ts'/> 
+////'use strict'
+////var foo, {}
+////var bar, []
+////let foo1, {a, b}
+////const bar1, [c, d]
+////var {e, x: [f, g]} = {a:1, x:[]};
+
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListCount(12); // global (1) + variable declarations (4) + binding patterns (7)
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("foo", "var");
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("bar", "var");
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("foo1", "let")
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("a", "let");
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("b", "let");
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("bar1", "const");
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("c", "const");
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("d", "const");
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("e", "var");
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("f", "var");
+verify.getScriptLexicalStructureListContains("g", "var");
+