Language assessment - what do they DO?

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Flamechick's is in a fortnight

We had speech and they decided that she had all the sounds, just speaks too fast.

But both the SALT and her teacher have noticed how literal she is with instructions, so decided to carry on and do a language assessment

So now just wanna know what kind of thing they do tbh.

I suppose it depends on the level of your child's vocabulary and understanding. With a child that has superficially good language I think they would look at:
How the child interacts, do they dominate a conversation, can they be steered away from the conversation, do they tend to dwell on favourite topics?
Do they initiate well and ask questions at a level with their age?
Do they have any difficulties with timing and reciprocity?
Do they come out with inappropriate comments (nb at your dd's age this is almost certaintly still common, but check)?
How do they speak to others? Eg if someone is present and I want to ask them a question I will often ask DH to ask them. Before DH it was my mum, but in that respect it was if another adult asked me something, I would direct the answer through my mum?
Do they have any echolalia?
Do they understand, obviously at a level with their age, abstract concepts such as dreams or death?
Do they take things very literally (again this might be typical of your dd's age?).
Others will have a more definite idea I'd say.

Sorry - I forgot I started this until i came to update I'm really sorry for being so rude! In my defence, I was high on painkillers

So - her language thing was about understanding and following instructions which again, she can do fine and to the letter, so she came out as normal.

SALT says that her teacher says that when they give group instructions DD needs to be told them again on a one to one basis - teacher didn't tell me that! We have parent's evening this week.

With the literalness - "she will grow out of it, or she won't" .

So that was a well spent half hour

DD ignored me completely - she didn't want me there so didn't even say hello or goodbye to me

When Flamechick had her hearing test a while back they said that one ear was actually hypersensitive - would that make a difference?

no-one ever mentions when you get pregnant that it is this hard

I know I have it easy compared to so many btw, just a general whinge

so after half an hour she decided that she will grow out of it, or not..??

wtf??

Ooooooooooooh "literal or semantic pragmatic difficulties" I have no idea what that means but it sounds fabulous

There wasn't a lot she could do to be fair to her. She will have spoken to the teacher after I had left, so I am guessing we will do updating IEP etc at parents evening and go from there.

Without knowing how DD reacts in class, it is impossible to know why she doesn't take it in (ie if she is p*ssing about, in another world etc).

what i meant was that Flame probably already thought that she may or may not grow out of it