SLT Sample assessment letter Plain English

Her speech-sounds are also delayed. That means that she is harder to
understand than I would expect for her age. She is able to say individual
speech-sounds but has difficulty saying those sounds in words. You told me
that you are a bit worried about her attention and her play. That wasn’t
immediately obvious to me during the assessment session but I will keep an
eye on it when you bring her for some speech and language therapy
sessions.
It is possible that Mary will need some direct work at a later date to help
improve her speech-sounds. However, first it will be more useful to help the
development of her expressive language. This means that we will look at
ways to help her sentences to get longer.
What happens next?
I will contact you in the next few weeks to arrange some sessions for you and
Mary. In each of these sessions we will make a 3 minute video of you and
Mary playing together. We will then look back on the video together to see
what you are doing that seems to help Mary say longer sentences. You can
then focus on doing that even more at home.
Once Mary’s vocabulary grows and her sentences get longer, we can decide if
we need to work on her speech sounds more directly.
I hope that I have correctly written everything that you told me. Let me know if
I haven’t. If you have any questions about this report feel free to phone or
email me.
Yours sincerely,
Senior Speech and Language Therapist
Ballinteer Health Centre
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