6 Years Development – Language Skills
Language has two main points:
- Receptive language (understanding): The language is intelligible.
- Expressive language (using language): Using language, speech, sign, or alternative forms of communication to convey wants, needs, thoughts, and ideas.
Listening
- Follows the conversations of the people around.
- Performs multi-step instructions.
- Vocabulary develops.
Vocabulary
- Vocabulary develops.
Sentence Information
- Builds more complex sentences.
- He uses imaginary language in games, enjoys pretending and making up stories.
- Lists various properties about an object.
Grammar Knowledge
- Makes sentences in the past tense.
Concept Knowledge
- Time: yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon, later…
Questions
- Asks How and Where questions.
Possible Situations Encountered When It Doesn’t Progress
- Socialization may be difficult.
- There may be poor attention and concentration.
- May have difficulty following directions at home or school.
- May have difficulty retelling events.
- May have difficulty performing routines. It may be difficult to be understood by people he does not know.
- May have difficulty expressing thoughts and ideas verbally and in writing.
- May have difficulty answering questions properly.
- He may have problems with speaking fluency because he cannot find the right word.