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
  • Joint attention
  • Gesticulation
  • Turn taking
  • Speech
  • Pragmatic skills
  • Code switching
Language
  • Expressive vocabulary
  • Receptive vocabulary
  • Syntax
  • Morphology
  • Grammar
  • Narrative skills
  • Inferencing
  • Language reasoning