Adolescent Checklist

An adolescent child would be likely to benefit from speech therapy if they:

• Use predominately simple sentences with few complex sentences
• Have a limited vocabulary compared with their peers
• Experience difficulties with reading and written comprehension
• Demonstrate difficulties when analysing spoken, written and visual texts (e.g. novels)
• Experience difficulties when planning and organising their thoughts and ideas
• Demonstrate difficulties with writing essays and undertaking assignments
• Experience difficulties understanding humour, sarcasm and slang
• Display difficulties in understanding figurative language including idioms (e.g. She turned over a new leaf)
• Are reluctant to contribute to class discussions
• Are behind in reading and spelling
• Experience difficulties in breaking longer words into syllables.

Those in need of help are likely to demonstrate difficulties with higher order cognitive skills such as:

• Differentiating between main idea and supporting detail
• Comparing and contrasting information
• Identifying similarities and differences
• Distinguishing between fact and opinion
• Evaluating information
• Drawing conclusions
• Problem solving
• Forming inferences and predictions
• Generalising new learning from one situation to another.

We assist adolescents with language and literacy difficulties including Dyslexia. Find out more about our assessment and therapy services.

For other checklists see: Early Years, Preschool and Primary School.