• A Transdisciplinary Assessment should be given in a play-based, naturalistic format.

• Take into account the families concerns, priorities, and resources.

• Define the child's means of communication and how well they communicate.

• Understand the dynamic of caregiver-child interactions.

• Look for presymbolic behaviors such as joint attention, intentional communication, complexity of vocalizations.

• Steps of a language assessment:

  • preplanning and preliminary data collecting

  • questionnaire

  • caregiver interview

  • interactional observation

  • formulating hypothesis

  • play-based interactional assessment

  • testing and structures probes

  • sampling

  • analysis of data

  • decision making and recommendations 

(Owens, 2024)

• Early intervention should be functional. Therefore, integrating daily routines can help language acquisition. 

• Services should be provided in the natural environment.

• Use of responsive interaction, and directive intervention.

• Follow the child's lead

• Expand the child's utterances

• self-talk and parallel talk

• Provide meaningful feedback

• Extend the child's topic in a reply

• Teach caregivers specific strategies and explain the rationale behind them.

• (Owens, 2024)