Understanding of Language (Receptive Language)
- Your child may benefit from Speech Pathology Intervention if he or she demonstrates any of the following:
- Difficulty following directions
- Isn’t sure about the relationships between words (e.g. opposites, categories)
- Difficulties in understanding what people say
- Frequently asks for repetition
- Gets distracted easily when required to listen to information
- Does not respond to questions appropriately
- Has difficulty listening to short stories and answering simple questions about them
- Has difficulty understanding words such as ‘if’, ‘because’, ‘when’, ‘until’
- Can’t repeat sentences of varying length verbatim
- Has attention difficulties
- Takes extra time to process information
Use of Language (Expressive Language)
- Your child may benefit from Speech pathology Intervention if he or she demonstrates any of the following:
- Difficulty finding the right words
- Has difficulty getting a message across
- Jumbles the order of information
- Has difficulty producing grammatically correct sentences
- Becomes frustrated easily
- Does not have a large vocabulary
- Has not mastered grammatical structures such as tense or pronouns (e.g. they will go, he drew a cat, he/she)
- Uses simplistic language
- Does not use descriptive words
- Does not ask a range of questions (e.g. when/where/what/who/how/why)
- Is not fluent in his or her speech (e.g. may repeat a sound, a word or a phrase)
- Needs extra time to work out what he or she wants to say
If you have any concerns regarding your child’s language, please contact Kimberley Archer to discuss further. Each child is different and Kimberley will be able to talk to you to find out your child’s strengths and areas that may need support.