Children between 7-11 years by CAMHS Speech and Language https://padlet.com/Livewell/q46ok2ygvet8 en-us 2017-10-09 14:16:46 UTC 2025-11-02 05:30:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Typical Speech and Language Development at this age Livewell https://padlet.com/Livewell/q46ok2ygvet8/wish/365313875 At this age we would typically expect children to:
  •  Use their speech sounds clearly. 
  • Start to follow more complex instructions.
  • Understand how words are linked by their meaning .
  • Understand that some words have multiple meanings, e.g. here/hear
  • Ask and respond to how? and why? questions.
  • Use a range of descriptive and emotion words.
  • Use more complicated grammar and join sentences in different ways.
  • Be able to describe their own experiences and sequence events in the right order.
  • Have a better ability to repair conversations if they breakdown.
  • Be less literal in their interpretation .
  • Stick to a topic but happily change if prompted.
  • Use and experiment with different styles of talking with different people. 
  • Change the style or politeness of their language to suit the situation and the person they are talking to, e.g. a friend in the street or their headteacher in the corridor.
  • Be aware when someone doesn’t understand and try another way to get the message across. 
  • Negotiate with friends and others to resolve issues without relying on adults.
  • Start to understand jokes based on double meanings. 
]]> 2019-06-03 14:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/Livewell/q46ok2ygvet8/wish/365313875 Word Finding difficulties Livewell https://padlet.com/Livewell/q46ok2ygvet8/wish/368098698 A 'word finding difficulty is when a person knows and understands a particular word, but has difficulty retrieving it and using it when talking. 

Children who have word-finding difficulties may;
  • Have a good understanding of words but a poor expressive vocabulary.
  • Talk around the word or explain the word they cannot find (e.g. "You know, the thing I brush my hair with").
  • Use non-specific words such as  it, thing, there, that one, stuff or over-generalise, using one word for many e.g. "top" for shirt, jumper, t-shirt, cardigan etc.
  • Use general  action words e.g 'got', go', 'do' instead of specific words such as 'make', 'wrap' 'drive'.
  • Substitute words with a close meaning  (for example they might say spoon instead of fork) or may use words that sound the same .
  • Use obvious word searching behaviors such as using um a lot (for example "ball, book, um, um, um bike")
  • Have lots of pauses in their speech and may take a long time to answer a question.
  • Rarely use 'content' words.  For example instead of saying "I got the book from her" they may say "I got it from her".

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