Summary:
- Compile checklist of skills of what to look for, one for each of the different ages you work with.
- Younger Children: Developmental Checklists
- Older Children: Use the School Curriculum
- Create Kits with all materials needed to elicit different skills
- Different kits for different ages
- Books or flashcards with objects for vocabulary
- Books/picture cards of actions for pronouns
- Book with social scenarios for pragmatics
- Highlights magazine for picture describing:
- Messenger game for questions
- Start with Conversation or Role Playing
- Make-believe toys
- Communication Temptations (Hoberman Sphere)
- Highlights Magazine for older children:
- Have the child speak a narrative
- Tell about a past event or retell a story that you read to them
- Analyze Sample
- Developmental checklists
- Mean Length of Utterance
- Intelligibility
- Type-Token Ratio
- Westby’s Play Scale
- Brown’s Morphemes
