Expressive language skills include verbal and non-verbal communication to get a message across to someone else.
It includes:
- Learning and using new vocabulary, including abstract words and concepts
- Expressing wants, needs, thoughts and emotions using verbal and non-verbal communication
- Putting words together into sentences
- Forming long, complex, and grammatically accurate sentences
- Answering questions
Useful websites:
RADLD.org – to understand more about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
Thinking Talking Vocabulary Resources – free word games for schools and families
ICAN Talking Point – support for parents and professionals
Links to resources and activities:
Vocabulary Activities – to support word learning skills
Word Web – learning new words
Narrative Skills – to support children to describe a sequence of events, e.g. storytelling, sharing news
Forming simple sentences – visual support to produce subject-verb-object sentences
Useful Documents: