Things to look out for

At this stage, your child should have well-developed speech, language and communication skills. At this age, a child might have delayed language if they

• Have difficulty giving specific answers or explanations.
• Have difficulty sequencing their ideas in the right order.
• Are better at understanding individual instructions than group instructions.
• Find it difficult to understand language where the meaning isn’t clearly stated.
• Find long and complicated instructions hard to understand.
• Have trouble learning new words.
• Take a long time to organise what they are going to say or write.
• Take things too literally.  For example “I’ll be back in a minute”.
• Have difficulty taking turns in conversations.
• Talk to teachers and friends in the same way.