LANGUAGE PROCESSING -CHECKLIST

  • Does your child repeat phrases they heard earlier, like a line from a movie,cartoon or a rhyme, at a later time?(it can be from a few minutes, weeks, months, or even years ago; also, things that they haven't heard recently)
  • Does your child sometimes speak in long strings or unintelligible words or sounds that don't seem to make sense?
  • Does our child have a lot of intonations?
  • Did your child start singing songs, including those with unclear words or just the tunes,before they began communicating in words?
  • Does your child often start sentences with contractions like "I'm," "you're," "we're," "it's," or "let’s"?
  • Is your child particularly interested in learning or listening to foreign languages and sounds or voices that are different from the usual, such as those in cartoons?
  • Does your child tend to play with toys or engage in activities in the same way every time?
  • Does your child often need repeated trials of asking, prompting, and cues to answer our questions?
  • Does our child take longer to respond to questions or prompts?
  • Does your child use the same words or phrases so repeatedly, even in different situations?
  • Have you felt that the traditional teaching or therapy methods have not been much effective for your child?
  • Have you noticed that your child gets stuck with single words and not combined with other words?
  • Does your child often imitate or copy the movements of others, such as acting out scenes from their favourite TV shows or movies, or mimicking people around them?
  • Is your child particularly interested in categories,like farm animals or vehicles or types of fruit?
  • Does your child use unique words or phrases that are specific to them and not commonly used by others?
  • Does your child get upset when they hear music that is specific to them and not commonly used by others?
  • Does our child get upset when they hear music that is off-key or not played or not sung correctly?
  • Does your child have more difficulty following typical instructions or directions?
  • Do you find that your child’s speech often can’t be taken literally and might mean something different?
  • Did your child start to understand and use metaphors or idiomatic expressions at an early age
  • Does your child mix up pronouns, like saying “you” instead of “I”?
  • Does your child have difficulty with traditional phonics-based reading methods?