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Quiz Questions

• 1.
  If your child wants something what do they do?

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    My child likes me to work out what they need and when.  They may cry or whine to show how they are feeling.
  • B.
    My child will approach me and hand me something, point or lead me to what they want.
  • C.
    My child has some words for the things that they like or want.
  • D.
    My child will ask for things they can't see, they will ask for things they had once ages ago.
  • E.
    My child is good at asking, negotiating and persuading, they are very good at getting what they want!
• 2.
  If you child entered a room of toys what would they do?

  • A.
    Zoom around, looking, touching, exploring but not settling to any one thing for more than a few seconds.
  • B.
    Choose something to play with a focus on it hard.
  • C.
    Spend time playing with one thing and then move on to something else.
  • D.
    Looks at what others are doing and play nearby, copy or watch them intently.
  • E.
    Look to engage with other adults and children and is able to follow games with rules.
• 3.
  What kind of toys does your child like?

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    My child likes exploring with their senses.  They are interested in touching and looking.
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    My child enjoys making things happen.  Pressing buttons, knocking down towers, pushing cars.
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    My child is beginning to enjoy toys that do things they see in everyday life such as tea sets and kitchens
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    My child likes actions out little stories in their play, they sequence the play and build more and more into it.
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    My child likes making things up, they use their imagination and enjoy things like superheros and fairies.
• 4.
  How does your child let you play with them?

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    My child prefers to play alone, it can be difficult to join them in play.
  • B.
    My child likes me to copy them, or be there with them, but they find it hard to let me join in.
  • C.
    My child loves simple turn taking games and loves adults playing with them.
  • D.
    My child loves playing and lets me join in sometimes leading and sometimes following their game.
  • E.
    I feel as though I can play collaboratively with my child, playing complex games with rules and they join in well.
• 5.
  What does your child understand?

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    My child doesn't show me that they understand yet. they need help to go through the routines.
  • B.
    My child understands routines and with anticipate what happens next, like when I put their shoes on, they know we are going outside.
  • C.
    My child know familiar words like people who are important, their favourite items and body parts.
  • D.
    My child understands simple two part instructions like put the 'teddy on the table'
  • E.
    My child understands lots of what is being said, they understand when I talk about yesterday or tomorrow.
• 6.
  How does your child speak?

  • A.
    My child makes coos, shrieks, cries, laughs and open vowel sounds.
  • B.
    My child uses gesture, pointing and showing to express themselves
  • C.
    My child uses single words (although can be unclear)
  • D.
    My child uses two and/or three word combinations
  • E.
    My child uses sentences to communicate.
• 7.
  How are your child's speech sounds and clarity

  • A.
    My child uses open sounds, no babbling just yet
  • B.
    My child uses a range of consonant and vowel sounds but no clear words.
  • C.
    My child uses some speech sounds but their speech is not totally clear.
  • D.
    My child uses a wide range of speech speech sounds and their speech is mostly clear.
  • E.
    My child has good speech clarity and this is not an area of concern.
• 8.
  How is your child's eating?

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    My child eats a small range of food and is limited by texture (prefers smooth or crunchy food)
  • B.
    My child is picky and not fully chewing yet.
  • C.
    My child eats most food but can struggle with very chewy foods.
  • D.
    My child eats lots of different food and can chew meat and chewy food well.

Quiz Outcomes

• 1.
  Your child is mostly Group 1

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  Your child is mostly in Group 1.Children in group 1 are learning about the world and about themselves. They are taking everything in and learning about their senses.They love to touch, look, listen and taste things but sometimes their sensory understanding can lead them to needing more of certain sensations and less of others.Children in group 1 may find it tricky to focus for any length of time on activities and may flit about from one thing to another or they may focus very intensely on things they like but find it tricky to focus on other things. As group 1 children learn about the world around them, they are not yet able to understand language and what is being said to them. They rely on their favourite adults to guide them and help them physically through their day.All children communicate even before they have words. For parents of children in group 1 there is a bit more work to do to understand what your child is trying the tell you.Children in group 1 use crying, whining, shrieking, and open sounds to communicate how they are feeling. They don't yet purposefully send messages and send these sounds out to the world and it is up to the adult to make sense of what they mean.Ready To Help Your Group 1 Child Progress to The Next Group?1. Listen to how you speak. Saying less and stopping asking questions is so powerful and can really help your child to make progress to the next group. 2. Reduce screen time. Group 1 children often love screens. This is because they a colourful, repetitive, and do not demand anything from them. But screen time can delay development for children in this group, so reduce the amount of screen time your child has.3. Ditch the Dummy. Development of mouth muscles is really important for this group and dummies and bottles can really hamper the progress children make with using their jaw, lips and tongue for talking. Ditching the dummy is an important step in helping mouth muscle development. Need help. I have a written a book to support you! Click HereWho am I to help you?Hey there, I’m Jo 👋I’m a Speech and Language Therapist with a difference!I am the Founder of the Can-Do Approach, a unique programme that takes what a child 'can-do' and works out their next steps and how to get there.So many parents tell me how negative they find that their experiences with professionals, when they are worried about their child's development and I knew I could do better for families. So I left my 20 year career in the NHS and founded The Home of Can-Do to really support parents in the way I knew they needed.Parents spend so much time waiting for services or 'waiting and seeing' if their child develops and this to me is wasted time, so my programmes focus on helping you to slip 'speech therapy' into everyday life, starting today. 🙌If you want to help your child move onto the next group or gain confidence with language and communication see below how I can help.See These Three Steps As Your Instant 'Speech Therapy' Solution!1. Download my starter booklet. This free booklet is your starting points to changing and moving forward with your child. '6 habits to break to get your child talking' will give you 6 things to do immediately to start the progress ball rolling! CLICK HERE2. What to dig deeper? I have put together a FREE 'mini series' for worried parents to get started with Can-Do and find out how to help their child. LEARN MORE3. Join my Facebook group Parenting children with speech language and communication difficulties. Here you can chat to other parents and watch my free trainings. You’re going to come away knowing a heck of a lot more! CLICK HEREGood on you — taking this quiz is a BIG step in the right direction. I’m going to pop you an email (or two) to keep your momentum up!
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  Your child is in mostly Group 2

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  Children in group 2 are learning about the impact they can have on the world. They are learning, when I do this, that happens.This means they are not yet talking but are beginning to send messages using pointing, gesture and sounds. They may lead you to what they want or hand you things they need help with. They may also be using gestures such as lifting their arms to be picked up.In this group attention and listening becomes more secure and they can pay attention to things they have chosen for sometime, although they may still find it hard to focus on what you choose.They are beginning to anticipate what will happen next in familiar songs and stories and this helps them to understand routines and what will happen next.Their sounds are progressing too and they are babbling and making a range of consonants and vowels but they are not yet using words.Ready To Help Your Group 2 Child Progress to The Next Group?1. Listen to how you speak. Saying less and stopping asking questions is so powerful and can really help your child to make progress to the next group. 2. Reduce screen time. Group 2 children often love screens. This is because they a colourful, repetitive, and do not demand anything from them. But screen time can delay development for children in this group, so reduce the amount of screen time your child has.3. Ditch the Dummy. Development of mouth muscles is really important for this group and dummies and bottles can really hamper the progress children make with using their jaw, lips and tongue for talking. Ditching the dummy is an important step in helping mouth muscle development. Need help. I have a written a book to support you Click HereWho am I to help you?Hey there, I’m Jo 👋I’m a Speech and Language Therapist with a difference!I am the Founder of the Can-Do Approach, a unique programme that takes what a child 'can-do' and works out their next steps and how to get there.So many parents tell me how negative they find their experiences with professionals when they are worried about their child's development and I knew I could do better for families. So I left my 20 year career in the NHS and founded The Home of Can-Do to really support parents in the way they told me they needed.Parents spend so much time waiting for services or 'waiting and seeing' if their child develops and this to me is wasted time, so my programmes focus on helping you to slip 'speech therapy' into everyday life, right from the get go. 🙌If you want to help your child move onto the next group or gain confidence with language and communication see below how I can helpSee These Three Steps As Your Instant 'Speech Therapy' Solution!1. Download my FREE starter booklet. This free booklet is your starting points to changing and moving forward with your child. '6 habits to break to get your child talking' will give you 6 things to do immediately to start the progress ball rolling! 2. What to dig deeper? I have put together a Free mini series for worried parents to look into the groups more and make a plan as to how to help their child. Learn More3. Join my Facebook Group 'Parenting children with speech language and communication difficulties'. Here you can chat to other parents and watch my free trainings. You’re going to come away knowing a heck of a lot more!Good on you — taking this quiz is a BIG step in the right direction. I’m going to pop you an email (or two) to keep your momentum up!
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  Your child is in mainly Group 3 

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  Children in group 3 are beginning to use single words, becoming confident at communicating at sending messages for lots of reasons and developing their play skills.It can take children a while to build up their spoken vocabulary and like with all areas of development there is more to it than meets the eye. Children need to understand single words, play imaginatively and have good oro-motor development in order to build their starting spoken vocabulary.Great news is your child is well on the way to doing this.Children in Group 3 are beginning to learn to shift their attention from what they are doing to what you are saying so you may find they are more consistent in their response to you calling their name.They have a range of single words they understand. Comprehension of language is usually ahead of their spoken words, this means they learn what a word is, before they can say it.Children at this stage start to play in a relational way, think tea parties, cooking, driving cars on a track. They learn that play items represent real life items and they copy what they have seen done with these objects in real life.Your child will begin to say words that are important or interesting to them first and then build their vocabulary once the first 20 words are fixed in.Your child will have a range of consonants they can use 'p, b, m, n, t, d, k, g, w,'Ready To Help Your Group 2 Child Progress to The Next Group?1. Listen to how you speak. Saying less and stopping asking questions is so powerful and can really help your child to make progress to the next group. 2. Reduce screen time. Group 3 children often love screens. This is because they a colourful, repetitive, and do not demand anything from them. But screen time can delay development for children in this group, so reduce the amount of screen time your child has.3. Ditch the Dummy. Development of mouth muscles is really important for this group and dummies and bottles can really hamper the progress children make with using their jaw, lips and tongue for talking. Ditching the dummy is an important step in helping mouth muscle development. Need help? I have a written a book to support you Click HereWho am I to help you?Hey there, I’m Jo 👋I’m a Speech and Language Therapist with a difference!I am the Founder of the Can-Do Approach, a unique programme that takes what a child 'can-do' and works out their next steps and how to get there.So many parents tell me how negative they find their experiences with professionals when they are worried about their child's development and I knew I could do better for families. So I left my 20 year career in the NHS and founded The Home of Can-Do to really support parents in the way they told me they needed.Parents spend so much time waiting for services or 'waiting and seeing' if their child develops and this to me is wasted time, so my programmes focus on helping you to slip 'speech therapy' into everyday life, right from the get go. 🙌If you want to help your child move onto the next group or gain confidence with language and communication see below how I can help.If you want to help your child move onto the next group or gain confidence with language and communication see below how I can help.See These Three Steps As Your Instant 'Speech Therapy' Solution!1. Download my FREE starter booklet. This free booklet is your starting points to changing and moving forward with your child. 6 habits to break to get your child talking will give you 6 things to do immediately to start the progress ball rolling! 2. What to dig deeper? I have put together a 'mini video series' for worried parents to look into the groups more and make a plan as to how to help their child. Watch Here3.Facebook Group 'Parenting children with speech language and communication difficulties'. Here you can chat to other parents and watch my free trainings. You’re going to come away knowing a heck of a lot more!Good on you — taking this quiz is a BIG step in the right direction. I’m going to pop you an email (or two) to keep your momentum up!
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  Your child is in mainly Group 4

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  Children in group 4 are learning sequencing words and ideas together.This means they are beginning to link words into phrases. Usually once they are using 50+ single words, they begin to make 2 word combinations. and then 3 word combinations In this group attention and listening becomes even better and they begin to be able to shift their attention to something new and then back again to the original focus. They can look and listen at the same time..Children at this stage widen their toy interests and begin to sequence their play such as feed the doll, bath her and then put her in bed or drive the car to the garage, park it, fill it with petrol.They begin to understand two step and then three step instructions. They understand things in the here and now and are not yet ready to talk about yesterday and tomorrow.They at first begin to combine two words together and then 3 words.Their sounds are progressing too they are now using some long sounds 's, sh, f z, v, l' which makes their words much clearer to those that don't know them well. Ready To Help Your Group 2 Child Progress to The Next Group?1. Listen to how you speak. Saying less and stopping asking questions is so powerful and can really help your child to make progress to the next group. 2. Reduce screen time. Group 4 children often love screens. This is because they a colourful, repetitive, and do not demand anything from them. But screen time can delay development for children in this group, so reduce the amount of screen time your child has.3. Ditch the Dummy. Development of mouth muscles is really important for this group and dummies and bottles can really hamper the progress children make with using their jaw, lips and tongue for talking. Ditching the dummy is an important step in helping mouth muscle development. Need help. I have a written a book to support you Click HereWho am I to help you?Hey there, I’m Jo 👋I’m a Speech and Language Therapist with a difference!I am the Founder of the Can-Do Approach, a unique programme that takes what a child 'can-do' and works out their next steps and how to get there.So many parents tell me how negative they find their experiences with professionals when they are worried about their child's development and I knew I could do better for families. So I left my 20 year career in the NHS and founded The Home of Can-Do to really support parents in the way they told me they needed.Parents spend so much time waiting for services or 'waiting and seeing' if their child develops and this to me is wasted time, so my programmes focus on helping you to slip 'speech therapy' into everyday life, right from the get go. 🙌If you want to help your child move onto the next group or gain confidence with language and communication see below how I can helpSee These Three Steps As Your Instant 'Speech Therapy' Solution!1. Download my FREE starter booklet. This free booklet is your starting points to changing and moving forward with your child. 6 habits to break to get your child talking will give you 6 things to do immediately to start the progress ball rolling! 2. What to dig deeper? I have put together a 'mini course' for worried parents to look into the groups more and make a plan as to how to help their child. Learn More3. Join my Facebook Group 'Parentinchildrenen with speech language and communication difficulties'. Here you can chat to other parents and watch my free trainings. You’re going to come away knowing a heck of a lot more!Good on you — taking this quiz is a BIG step in the right direction. I’m going to pop you an email (or two) to keep your momentum up!
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  Your Child is in mainly Group 5

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  Children in group 5 are learning to use their imagination and producing and communicating their ideas.This means they are beginning to play with the imagination, using less props in their play and coming up with their own ideas.In this group attention and listening becomes finely tuned and they begin to be able to listen to instructions delivered to a group, not just to them individually.They understand when talking about yesterday and tomorrow and can follow instructions with more than 3 parts.They begin to use language imaginatively, they begin to experiment with grammar and make lots of mistakes like 'mouses' and 'goed' Their word order may be wrong too. It is important that they make these mistakes and if they are not it could be an indication they are learning language in whole chunks and they need some support.They are beginning to ask and answer questions. 'What' 'Who' 'When' then 'why' then 'how' Their speech sounds are not a concern and they have clear speech but they may not have 'r and th' just yet.Ready To Help Your Group 2 Child Progress to The Next Group?1. Listen to how you speak. Saying less and stopping asking questions is so powerful and can really help your child to make progress to the next group. 2. Model don't test. Group 5 children need to hear lots of modelling of language. We have a saying in 'Can-Do' - 'say what they would say if they could' Giving children the words to say is such an important strategy as it can be easy to just ask questions.3. Free Play. Free play is vital at this stage and in our technological world it is not always easy. Open ended toys that are not electronically based as well as the 3M's of play 'Mess, manipulation and movement' This means touching, moving and making a mess are so important at this stage.Who am I to help you?Hey there, I’m Jo 👋I’m a Speech and Language Therapist with a difference!I am the Founder of the Can-Do Approach, a unique programme that takes what a child 'can-do' and works out their next steps and how to get there.So many parents tell me how negative they find their experiences with professionals when they are worried about their child's development and I knew I could do better for families. So I left my 20 year career in the NHS and founded The Home of Can-Do to really support parents in the way they told me they needed.Parents spend so much time waiting for services or 'waiting and seeing' if their child develops and this to me is wasted time, so my programmes focus on helping you to slip 'speech therapy' into everyday life, right from the get go. 🙌If you want to help your child move onto the next group or gain confidence with language and communication see below how I can helpSee These Three Steps As Your Instant 'Speech Therapy' Solution!1. Download my FREE starter booklet. This free booklet is your starting points to changing and moving forward with your child. 6 habits to break to get your child talking will give you 6 things to do immediately to start the progress ball rolling! 2. What to dig deeper? I have put together a 'mini course' for worried parents to look into the groups more and make a plan as to how to help their child. Learn More3. Join my Facebook Group Parenting children with speech language and communication difficulties. Here you can chat to other parents and watch my free trainings. You’re going to come away knowing a heck of a lot more!Good on you — taking this quiz is a BIG step in the right direction. I’m going to pop you an email (or two) to keep your momentum up!