If your child has difficulty answering wh-questions, expressing their wants/needs/ideas, vocabulary, or grammar...the SLP can assess in these areas and see if your child has a disability in these areas. For more information about the language areas SLPs assess, see below
The ability to express wants/needs/ideas/tell stories
Understanding questions
Understanding a story read to them
Understanding vocabulary
-who
-what
-when
-where
-why
-how
-Difficulty understanding nonverbal language (tone of voice, reading facial expressions)
-Difficulty understanding idioms and sarcasm
-Difficulty with inferencing/making predictions
-nouns
-language concepts
Examples include: under/over, same/different, more/less
-descriptive language
what is it made from, what do you do with it, what does it feel like, what is the color, what is what shape, what is the size
-antonyms
Opposites: big/small, thin/thick, in/out
-synonyms
Same: big/large/huge/enormous, small/little/tiny
-multiple meaning words/homophones
mouse (for the computer and the rodent/animal)
light (as in the sun and weight or opposite of heavy)
ate/eight
Morphology is the smallest unit of language that changes meaning. This can be everything from a plural -s, to the -ing ending, to the past tense -ed ending. Grammar is also mastered in phases so this chart tells you when specific morphology endings are mastered.
Grammar also refers to subjective pronouns (he, she, they), possessive pronouns (his, hers, theirs), and more!