Parent-Child Services Group, Inc.
1225 E. Weisgarber Road, Suite 180 South ● Knoxville, TN 37909 ● (865) 584-5558 ● Fax: (865) 584-6607

A SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST EVALUATES:

ARTICULATION: The child’s ability to say sounds in words, sentences, and conversation.

LANGUAGE:

Receptive Language - The child’s ability to understand what is said to him/her, including vocabulary/concepts, and following directions.

Expressive Language - The child’s ability to communicate effectively including sentence length/structure/grammar and pragmatics/social communication skills.

AUDITORY PROCESSING: Auditory processing involves what the child does with what he/she hears. For example, the ability to process and understand individual sounds, discriminate them as being separate entities, blend them together to form words, break words apart, sequence sounds/words, remember what is heard, localize auditory information, etc. Related to all areas of language and to reading and spelling.

HEARING: A hearing screening to determine the need for a medical or audiological referral.

READING: The child’s ability to decode (sound out) the words correctly and comprehend what is read.

VOICE: The quality and loudness of a child’s voice. May be hoarse, harsh, breathy, too loud/soft, hyper/hypo-nasal, or have the wrong pitch for age/sex.

FLUENCY: The child’s ability to speak smoothly without undue hesitations, tension of the mouth, or repetitions of sounds/words/phrases.

ORAL-MOTOR: The child’s ability to use the parts of the mouth to perform the functions of speaking or eating.