Primary School Checklist

Speech therapy would help primary school children if they:

• Experience difficulties with producing complex sentences using joining words (e.g. so, unless, although, while)
• Demonstrate difficulties in comprehending stories (i.e. drawing conclusions, identifying the main idea, making predictions)
• Are unable to follow three or more step instructions (e.g. take out your maths book; turn to page 35 and complete questions 1 to 3)
• Experience difficulties giving specific instructions or directions (e.g. providing instructions to play a game)
• Are more reluctant to initiate conversation or contribute to class discussions
• Produce grammatically incorrect sentences
• Experience difficulties in organising and structuring their ideas
• Produce stories which lack sequence and important detail (e.g. setting or character details)
• Have a limited vocabulary compared with their peers
• Demonstrate difficulties when saying multisyllabic words (e.g. hospital, octopus, escalator, vegetables)
• Display difficulties when breaking words into sounds/ syllables and blending sounds to produce words
• Demonstrate confusion with similar sounding words (e.g. peach/speech)
• Are behind in reading and spelling
• Show a lack of interest in attending school and completing class tasks and homework.

We assist primary school children with speech, language and literacy difficulties. Find out more about our assessment and therapy services.

For other checklists see: Early Years, Preschool and Adolescent.