Expected Development Tick Request for SALT Involvement Tick Monitor Tick Understands and uses simple ‘who’, questions ‘what’, ‘where’ Understands only simple instructions Understands longer instructions Difficulty understanding simple such as the cup on the without ‘put such as teddy jump on the instructions. Need support e.g. ‘make adult support. E.g. pointing or showing chair’ pointing and showing use: Starting to understand simple concepts such as big, little, in. Puts 3 or more words together in a sentence Using sentences containing only 2/3 Not using 3 or more words together Uses action words as well as nouns words e.g. juice’ wash in sentences (and has not made ‘more ‘mummy Beginning to use word endings e.g. hands’ and has made progress over the progress in the last 3 months) last 3 months Unusual word order ‘cats’ Can retell a simple past event not understood by familiar people most of the time. Speech patterns show: Child understood by familiar people Missed initial consonants most of the time. is not yet using some consonant Unclear Vowels Most sounds are now heard sounds e.g. ‘s’, ‘f’, ‘g’, Only one or two consonants It is very common for children to Childs speech is understood by All final sounds missed have difficulty with k. g, ch, j, sh, th, strangers less than 75% of the time Not using sounds such as r, y at this age. p,b,t,d,n,m of these ‘f’, ‘v’, ‘s’, ‘z’ –none present If Monitoring Review Date: Strategies / Activities to use: Progress made: Action needed: 4 years
Expected Development Tick Monitor Tick Request for SALT Involvement Tick Understands and uses simple ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ questions Understands longer instructions such as ‘make teddy jump on the chair’ Starting to understand simple concepts such as big, little, in. Understands only simple instructions such as ‘put the cup on the without adult support. E.g. pointing or showing use: Difficulty understanding simple instructions. Need support e.g. pointing and showing Puts 3 or more words together in a sentence Uses action words as well as nouns Beginning to use word endings e.g. ‘cats’ Can retell a simple past event Using sentences containing only 2/3 words e.g. ‘more juice’ ‘mummy wash hands’ and has made progress over the last 3 months Not using 3 or more words together in sentences (and has not made progress in the last 3 months) Unusual word order Child understood by familiar people most of the time. Most sounds are now heard It is very common for children to have difficulty with k. g, ch, j, sh, th, r, y at this age. is not yet using some consonant sounds e.g. ‘s’, ‘f’, ‘g’, Childs speech is understood by strangers less than 75% of the time not understood by familiar people most of the time. Speech patterns show: Missed initial consonants Unclear Vowels Only one or two consonants All final sounds missed Not using sounds such as p,b,t,d,n,m ‘f’, ‘v’, ‘s’, ‘z’ –none of these present If Monitoring Strategies / Activities to use: Review Date: Progress made: Action needed: 4 years
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