Your concerns:
Speech
- Unclear speech
- Changes sounds or omits sounds in words
- Difficulty saying longer words
Expression
- Late to talk
- Uses fewer words than expected
- Has not learned to name many objects or actions
- Talks less frequently than other children
- Sentences are short and simple
- Sentences seem muddled
- Difficulty explaining things clearly
- Difficulty telling about something that has happened
- Difficulty telling ‘news’
- Responds inappropriately to questions
- Uses incorrect or inadequate words to name or describe
Comprehension
- Difficulty following instructions
- Struggles to ‘tune-in’
- Difficulty understanding what people are asking
- Has trouble attending and understanding stories
- Difficulty maintaining attention at group time
- Misunderstands questions
- Difficulty grasping new information, concepts and ideas
- Forgets what has been said
Social Communication
- Difficulty joining in
- Difficulty making friends
- Says inappropriate things to others
- Talks too much or too little
- Plays alone
- Solves problems with shouting, whining, tantrums or hitting
Reading
- Slow reader
- Difficulty sounding out words
- Difficulty naming letters and sounds
- Difficulty predicting text
- Guesses words and can not remember words
- Misunderstands what has been read
- Misses the main idea or the details of written text
- Reads print well but does not comprehend
- Below the reading level expected
Writing
- Difficulty thinking of what to write
- Written sentences are short and simple
- Story ideas are limited
- Omission of word endings or small grammar words
- Limited ideas and vocabulary
Spelling
- Difficulty learning letters and sounds
- Difficulty learning the spelling of common words
- Guesses the spelling of words, can not remember words
- Muddles the letters in words
- Spells initial letter correctly but not middle and last letters
- Spells words with 3 letters but not 4 letters
- Difficulty spelling vowels in words
- Below the level expected in spelling ability
