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Preschool Check List: Notes

This speech-language evaluation checklist for preschoolers includes sections to assess behavior, oral motor skills, feeding, voice quality, fluency, intelligibility, play skills, pragmatic language, receptive language, and expressive language. The checklist provides age-appropriate expectations for each area and allows the clinician to note the child's performance in 10 key domains relevant to a preschool speech and language evaluation.

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Preschool Check List: Notes

This speech-language evaluation checklist for preschoolers includes sections to assess behavior, oral motor skills, feeding, voice quality, fluency, intelligibility, play skills, pragmatic language, receptive language, and expressive language. The checklist provides age-appropriate expectations for each area and allows the clinician to note the child's performance in 10 key domains relevant to a preschool speech and language evaluation.

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Speech-Language Evaluation

preschool Check List


1. Behavioral observation: 6. Intelligibility level: NAME:
Transitions easily 25-50% intelligible (Age <2)
Remains seated 50-75% intelligible (Age 2-3) AGE:
Compliant 75-90% intelligible (Age 4-5)
Uses Joint attention 90-100% intelligible (Age 5+)
Self-directed
Other:_________________ 7. Types of play skills:
Uses toys functionally
2. Oral-motor exam: Symbolic play (Age 2+)
Open-mouth posture Dramatic play (Age 3-5)
Short lingual frenulum Game play (Age 5+)
Lip strength OTHER: _________________
Lip Range of motion for /a/, /u/, / i /
Tongue elevation + Range of motion 8. Pragmatic language skills:
Velum raises for /a/ Uses eye-contact appropriately
Appropriate /buttercup/ rate Looks or responds when name is called
Other:_________________ Uses social greetings + closures (Age <2)
Begins to use language for jokes + teasing (age 2-3)
3. Feeding skills: Engages in longer dialogue (Age 2-3)
Self-feeds (Age 2-3) Controls behavior verbally (Age 2-3)
Drinks from an open cup (Age <2-3) Expresses ideas and feelings (Age 3-4)
Uses fork and spoon (Age 2-3) Takes turns + plays cooperatively with peers (age 3-4)
Eats a variety of food textures Shows signs of frustration when not understood (Age 3-4)
Asks questions to gain information (Age 5+)
4. Voice quality:
Normal for age and gender 9. Receptive Language skills:
Hypernasality / Hyponasality Responds to yes/no questions (Age <2)
Hoarseness understands “what” and “where” questions (Age 2-3)
Reduced loudness understands “who” and “why” questions (Age 4)
Abnormal pitch Follows one-step directives with concepts (Age 2-3)
Follows simple two-step directives (Age 2-3)
5. Fluency characteristics: Follows two-step directives with concepts (Age 3-4)
Normal rate
Whole-word repetitions 10. Expressive Language Skills:
Part-word repetitions nonverbal
Sound prolongations uses gestures: points, takes a person’s hand, signs
Physical concomitants Communicates at the Single-word level
Uses connected speech: two-, three-, four-word utterances
notes:
____________________________________ Uses a wide range of vocabulary
____________________________________ Uses functional language: requests, comments, protests
____________________________________ Meets wants and needs by using verbal communication
© Shannon Hall, M.S. CCC-SLP Lanza & Flahive (2012)

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