Preschool Checklist

Professional speech therapy could help your child if he or she:

• Is difficult to understand
• Displays a limited vocabulary
• Has a history of chronic ear infections
• Experiences difficulties with producing sounds correctly (e.g. substitutes ‘th’ for ‘s’)
• Exhibits frustration or aggression when not easily understood by others
• Uses gestures to communicate more than words
• Repeats sounds, words or phrases (e.g. ‘sssock’; ‘I I I want icecream’)
• Experiences difficulties in following two step instructions (e.g. get your bag; then sit on the floor)
• Experiences difficulties in finding the right words to express themselves
• Displays difficulties when asking and answering different ‘wh’ questions (e.g. what, where, who, when, why questions)
• Is unable to produce complex sentences using joining words (e.g. and, because)
• Displays grammatical errors in their speech
• Experiences difficulties in retelling a simple story
• Has difficulties with phonological awareness (e.g. recognising rhyme, identifying beginning or ending sounds in words).

We assist preschool children with speech, language and phonological awareness difficulties. Find out more about our assessment and therapyservices.

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