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Students who are having difficulties with the following skills can be referred for a speech/language screening/evaluation.
- articulation (production of speech sounds, such as, /s/, /l/,etc.
- phonemic awareness skills (manipulating sounds in words)
- following directions
- listening and reading comprehension (summarizing, main idea,...)
- auditory processing (attending, memory, sound discrimination, figure-ground)
- wh-questions (asking, answering)
- vocabulary (understanding, labeling, defining word meanings/word relationships)
- word finding (it's on the tip of my tongue!)
- grammar/writing skills
- narrative skills (the ability to describe things, and events, and to tell stories)
- sequencing events
- fluency/stuttering
- voice (may sound hoarse, nasal, denasal, too quiet/too loud)
- pragmatic skills (knowing what to say, how to say it, when to say it, and how to interact with others
- initiating/maintaining conversations
and more!!!