Social Communication Area

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1. Does your child talk about the future? For example, your child predicts the ending of a story or says, "I'm going swimming tomorrow." (Al . 1)

2. Does your child talk about pretend objects, events, or people? For example, your child says, "This is my magic spaceship and I'm going to drive it to the moon." (Al .2)

3. Does your child talk about how he or she feels? For example, your child says, "l am happy when  I play with my puppy." (Al .3)

4. Does your child talk about the past? For example, your child says, "l fell down yesterday," or "l had soup at school today." (Al .4)

5. Does your child teli other people what to do? For example, your child says, "Give me the red block." (Al .5)

6. Does your child ask questions to gain information? For example, when you are cooking, your child says, "What are you making?" (Al .6)

7. Does your child talk about what he or she sees, hears, or does? For example, your child says, "l saw a cat today," or "I'm going outside to play." (Al .7)

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1. Does your child take turns being the speaker and the listener when talking to others? (A2. I )

2. Does your child change the subject when you do? For example, your child says, want to play outside some more," and you say, "We need to go inside now and fix a snack." Your child responds by changing the subject and saying, "What are we going to eat?" (A2.2)

3. Does your child ask questions during conversations if he or she needs more information? (A2.3)

4. Does your child answer questions about things he or she sees, hears, says, or does? For example, your child says, "l want that," and you ask, "What do you want?" Your child says, "l want the red truck." (A2.4)

5. Does your child talk about things that are relevant to the situation or to the person he or she is talking to? For example, your child sees you cutting carrots and asks for one. (A2.5)

6. Does your child respond to things you talk about? For example, you say, "You look nice," and your child says, "l have on my new sweater." (A2.6)

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1.  a. Does your child change his or her voice •through a variety of techniques to provide greater meaning? For example, your child may speak words slowly, with small pauses between words to convey seriousness, or speak through clenched teeth to tell you the need for the bathroom is great. (A3. l )

2. Does your child change position to face the person to whom he or she is speaking? (A3.2)

4. Does your child use a variety of verbs (action words)? (B l )

NOTE: Place a "St" or "N" by items a through f:

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1. Does your child use verbs, such as is, will, have? For example, "She is running," "He will go with us," "The girls have the toys." (Bl . 1)

2. Does your child use am, is, are, and was? (B I .2)

3. Does your child use he and she when talking about another person? For example, your child says, "She plays, he doesn't." (Bl .3)

4. Does your child use past tense verbs such as came, ran, fell, did, told, went, and sat? (B I .4)

5. Does your child use past tense verbs such as walked, washed played, and helped? (B I .5)

6. Does your child use "ing" verbs such as washing, going, and eating? (Bl .6

5. Does your child use words to express possession and more than one of something? (B2)

NOTE: Place a "Y," "S," or "N" by items a through c:

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1. Does your child use possessive ^u s" (a word followed by an apostrophe and "s" to show something belongs to someone)? For example, your child says, "Mom's hat," or "Ann's shoes." (B2.1 )

2. Does your child use irregular plural nouns such as men, mice, and children? (B2.2)

3. Does your child use regular plural nouns such as dogs, houses, boats, and blocks? (B2.3)

1. Does your child ask questions with "yes" or "no" as the answer? (B3. l )

2. Does your child ask questions such as, "Can I go?" or "Is he hiding?" (not "l go?" or "He hiding?" ) (83.2)

3. Does your child ask questions that begin with the word "when"? (B3.3)

4. Does your child ask questions that begin with the words "why," "who," and "how"? (83.4)

5. Does your child ask questions that begin with the words "what" and "where?" (B3.5)

6. Does your child ask questions by a rise in pitch at the end of a sentence? For example, your child asks, "l go?" (B3.6)

1. Does your child use l, she, he, they, and we? For example, your child says, "He went home" or 'Il did it." (B4.1)

2. Does your child use you, me, him, her, us, them, and it as the object in phrases and sentences?

   For example, your child says, "John hurt me." (B4.2)

3. Does your child use my, your, her, its, our, their, mine, yours, hers, ours, and theirs to show possession? For example, your child says, "Those are her shoes." (B4.3)

4. Does your child use pronouns such as some, any, none, every, anything, something, nothing, all, lots, many, and more? For example, your child says, "He doesn't have any" or "l have some.

   (B4.4)

5. Does your child use pronouns such as this, that, these, and those to point out objects? For exampie, your child says, "l want those." (B4.5)

    

8. Does your child use a variety of words to describe? (85)

NOTE: Place a "Y," or "N" by items a through f:

1. Does your child use words to describe things? For example, your child says, "Throw the big ball," or "l want the red pepper." (B5. l )
2. Does your child use words to talk about how things are different from one another? For example, your child says, "l have the biggest bowl of ice cream," "My car is best," or "She is the strongest. " (85.2)
3. Does your child use words to describe actions? For example, your child says, "He runs fast" or "She eats slowly." (B5.3)
4. Does your child use words to describe position such as in, on, out, up, down, under, by, of, and for? For example, your child says, "My books are on the bookshelf." (B5.4)
5. Does your child use words that connect other words such as and, but, because, if, and or? For example, your child says, "We could play or take a nap." (B5.5)
6. Does your child use words such as the, an, and a? For example, your child says, "l want an apple," or "Where's the ball?" (B5.6)