Many parents ask how they will know if their child would benefit from a Comprehensive Language Assessment. If your child is struggling to learn, encode, retrieve, or recall language-based information you may want to consider an in-depth evaluation.
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Our Comprehensive Language Assessment will systematically evaluate your child’s language-based learning skills across a variety of measures, resulting in a thorough review of your child’s strengths and areas of need. Through in-depth reporting, you will better understand where gaps exist and how difficulties in one skillset may be impacting performance in others.
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A Comprehensive Language Assessment will evaluate your child’s skills as they relate to:
Language Comprehension
Higher-level Language and Thinking
Processing Speed and Working Memory
Oral & Written Expression
Literacy Development & Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary & Concept Development
Flexible Thinking & Problem Solving
Executive Function
Social Communication
Social Skill Development
Gaps between language learning and achievement in other academic areas areas
Difficulty following instruction, difficulty retaining information, difficulty processing complex sentences
Gaps in decoding skills, slow development of reading skills, including comprehension and retention
Difficulty with implied information, understanding humour, and processing figurative language
Slow to retrieve specific words, often using “empty” words such as “thing”, “that”, or “you know...”
Limited vocabulary knowledge, difficulty learning and defining subject-specific vocabulary
Shallow understanding of words, difficulty explaining how words and concepts are similar and different, struggles to think of synonyms and antonyms, limited knowledge of multiple meaning words
Difficulty effectively relating an idea, an event, or explaining a concept
Difficulty expanding on ideas either verbally or in writing
Difficulty planning, organizing, and executing assignments and daily tasks
Difficulty identifying problems and solutions