Receptive Language
- Has a receptive vocabulary of approximately 20,000 words
- Sequences numbers
- Carries out a series of 3 directions
- Understands rhyming
- Understands ‘left’ and ‘right’
- Understands most concepts of time
- Understands time sequences (for example, what happened first, second, or third)
- Understands the meaning of most sentences
Expressive Language
- Defines objects by there uses (“you eat with a fork”)
- Asks ‘how’ questions
- Answers verbally to ‘hi’ and ‘how are you?’
- Describes objects
- Names opposites
- Sequentially names days of the week
- Counts to 30 by rote
- Counts 10 objects
- Reduces sentence length to 4-6 words
- Exchanges information and asks questions
- Uses sentences with details
- Accurately relays a story
- Sings entire songs and recites nursery rhymes
- Communicates easily with adults and other children
- Engages in conversation
- Uses appropriate grammar in most cases
- Sentences can be 8 or more words in length
Articulation/Verbal Output
- Consonants mastered: m, n, w, h, ing, y, b, p, t, d, k, g, f, v, l, sh, ch, th, blends
Pragmatic/Social Language
- Uses imagination to create stories
Grammar
- Uses compound and complex sentences
- Uses past tense and future tense appropriately
- Uses conjunctions