You are an SLP working with a family who has a preschool child.  The mother tells you she is concerned about his social language development.  Tell the mother three (3) important areas of pragmatic language development in preschool children.  Give a definition OR milestone of development within each area. This is a very general question; you can include many things here!

Consonant clusters are mastered by around age _________________________.  

Formation of a link between a particular referent and a new name is called ____________________.  

_______________________ is the specific ability to manipulate sounds, such as blending sounds to create new words or segmenting words into sounds. 

A dependent clause consists of a subordinating conjunction such as _________________.  

Narratives are used in early detection of _______________________.  

A 3 to 4 year old child uses more ___________________ responses than a 2 year old that omit shared information. 

You are a school-based SLP in an elementary school.  You are conducting an informal assessment with a school-aged child who is eight years old. Indicate one developmental milestone for each of the five domains that might indicate that their speech and language skills are in a typically developing range.  For your response, please briefly describe the milestone and the domain it represents (e.g., syntax; 1 pt each) and give a brief example (1 pt each).

An independent clause consists of a coordinating conjunction such as _________________.  

Children add five words to their lexicon every ________ between the ages of 1 1/2 to 6 years.