Communication and Language
Measures of children's proficiency to understand and convey information, ideas and feelings through words and sentences.
Sub-domains and proficiencies
Definitions for each of the skills listed above can be found here.
Communication -
Children’s proficiency in conveying and understanding information, ideas or feelings.
- Joint attention
- Gesticulation
- Turn taking
- Speech
- Pragmatic skills
- Code switching
Language -
Children’s proficiency in understanding words and sentence structures and using them to express meaning.
- Expressive vocabulary
- Receptive vocabulary
- Syntax
- Morphology
- Grammar
- Narrative skills
- Inferencing
- Language reasoning