Receptive Language

Receptive Language is what children do with information when listening. It is how they process and understand what they hear.

Children with good receptive language skills:

• Follow directions
• Have good listening skills
• Process spoken information
• Answer questions appropriately
• Understand stories that are read to them
• Have good vocabulary knowledge

Characteristics of a receptive language disorder include confusion in the classroom, misunderstanding what they hear, responding to questions incorrectly, and problems communicating with friends.

How the Well Screening can help

Subtest 1: Language Processing measures the ability to comprehend basic sentence structures. After listening to an orally presented stimulus, the child points to one of three pictures that best represents the syntactic/grammatical form. Example: The boy is pushed by the girl.