Special Education

Teaching Students with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Appendix 6: Language Development Checklist

Appendix 6: Language Development Checklist
Name:	________________________	Date of Birth:	________________________
School:	________________________	Grade:	________________________

Expressive Language	Mostly	Sometimes	Never
Articulates sounds clearly	_______	_______	_______
Uses age appropriate vocabulary	_______	_______	_______
Uses complete statements or thoughts when speaking	_______	_______	_______
Uses language in various ways (to reason, to predict, to project, to imagine)	_______	_______	_______
Responds appropriately to a variety of question types	_______	_______	_______
Interacts appropriately with peers on a social level	_______	_______	_______
Asks questions to clarify directions when necessary	_______	_______	_______
Demonstrates age-appropriate telephone skills	_______	_______	_______
Is able to respond to questions in an appropriate length of time	_______	_______	_______
Is able to give specific details when asked for an explanation or description	_______	_______	_______
Uses age appropriate sentence structures	_______	_______	_______
Uses a variety of writing forms	_______	_______	_______
Able to use a variety of resources to write independently	_______	_______	_______
Edits, revises own work	_______	_______	_______

Receptive Language	_______	_______	_______
Derives satisfaction and enjoyment from conversation and reading materials	_______	_______	_______
Can follow oral directions	_______	_______	_______
Can follow written directions	_______	_______	_______
Understands idioms and multiple meanings	_______	_______	_______
Understands humour	_______	_______	_______
Understands that a change in vocabulary does not necessarily mean a change in the content of a message. For example, is able to understand that “list the similarities” means the same thing as “how are _______ and ________ alike?”	_______	_______	_______
Active in the classroom listening to others, and reacting to ideas	_______	_______	_______
Can clearly discriminate between sounds	_______	_______	_______
Makes associations and generalizations by category, function or physical similarities	_______	_______	_______
Shows an interest in and enjoyment of books	_______	_______	_______
Demonstrates age-appropriate reading strategies	_______	_______	_______
Recognizes main points and important facts in reading material	_______	_______	_______
Shows increasing awareness of facts, details, feelings and values	_______	_______	_______
Can recall events in sequence	_______	_______	_______
Can focus on important information, rather than on other stimuli	_______	_______	_______
Can appreciate author’s purpose and style	_______	_______	_______

Comments

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Completed by:	__________________________________________________________
Relationship to student:	__________________________________________________________
Date:	__________________________________________________________

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