During an initial consultation, the speech therapist will ask about your concerns regarding your child’s speech, language, social, and/or communications difficulties.
Depending on the communication issue, an SLP may ask you about the following areas:
How your child communicates (including pronunciation, voice, and fluency)
Your child’s language expression (including vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure)
Language comprehension (what your child understands)
The ages your child reached different developmental milestones
Play and social communication skills (to assess how your child communicates through body language, eye contact, and greetings etc.)
For older children, Speech-Language Pathologists may also assess reading and writing skills.
The therapist will use this informal assessment to establish an appropriate treatment plan for your child, and discuss that with you in detail.