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Semantic Assessment

Name:
Age :
Gender:

Point to a variety of objects in the room and have the child name them.
Tell a short story and ask the child to tell it back to you.

1. Number of different words:


Type of Words Comprehension Expression
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositions
Pronouns
Conjunctions
Question forms

2. Unusual use of words:

3. Over generalizations:

4. Under generalizations:

5. Basic categorisation by label-fruits, vehicles

6. Categorization by function –things we eat, wear

7. Word finding difficulties

8. First words: Lahey’s (1988)


First words Refers to Example
A. Substantive words Names of objects cookie, ball, and shoe

B. Relational words Existence this, that, ball, there

Non-existence/ all gone, no, bye-bye, away


disappearance
Recurrence more, another, again
Rejection No
Denial no
Attribution big, little, hot, dirty, pretty, some
Cessation no, stop, all done
Possession mine, my
Action - go, open, get, do, make, throw, eat, find,
draw, fix, wash, kiss, bump, help
Locative here, there, in, up, put, take, up, down,
out, fit, sit, fall, go, dump, turn, in, on,
here, out,
C. Social words Hi, bye, night-night, yes

9. Two word combination

Semantic relations Example


Nomination “that ball”
Nonexistence “no ball”
Action-object “roll ball”
Action –agent “Baby cry”
Recurrence “More cookie”
Action + locative “jump{on} chair”
Entity + locative “ball (in) chair”
Possessive-possession “baby ball”
Agent-object “baby ball”
Entity-attribute “pretty ball”
Instrumental “cut {with} knife”
Conjunction “coat {and}hat”

Semantic Assessment
Name :

Age:

Gender:

Check for the following

S.No Functions Stimuli Response


1 Definition Apple
Train
Teacher
Red
Language
2 Antonyms Hot
Before
Open
Dark
Uncle
Winter/kulir ka:lam/
3. Provide word Big
that means same
as
Begin
Fear /acham/
Tasty /Suvai/
Fantastic
4. What do these Water, orange juice,
words have in milk/thani:r/, /a:ranj ju:s/, /pa:l/
common?
Rain, fog, sunny

/malai/, /Pani/, /veyil/


Fish, crab, prawns

/mi:n/, /nandu/, /ira:l/


Chennai, Madurai, Trichy

/chenai/, /Madurai/, /thiruchi/


Pencil, pen, rubber

/pensil/, /pena/, /rabar/


5. Name 5 items in Colours
the category
Animals
Vegetables
Places
Emotions
6.. Similarity Kabadi and cricket
between the
word pairs
Snake and elephant
Earring and Bangle
Biscuit and cake
Phone and TV
7. Finish the Red, white, and
phrases
Dosa and
Shoes and
Salt and
8 Explain the Look before you leap
phrases
Better late than never
All that glitters is not gold
He is like a tiger
Tit for tat

1. Unusual use of words:

2. Over generalizations:

3. Under generalizations:

4. Word finding difficulties :

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