RL.B.28 BRINGS A KNOWN OBJECT FROM ANOTHER ROOM WHEN ASKED

The last simple direction in this sequence requires the child to keep a specific request in mind while she goes to another room, finds an object and brings it back to you. Once she can do this she has an excellent basis for mastering the more complex directions in the sequences that follow.

How to Assess

Method: Ask your child to bring you an object from another room. The object should be something with which she is very familiar and something which can always be found in much the same place.

Score plus if your child brings you the object you have requested.

This item is applicable only to children who are walking. If your child is not yet walking, continue with other sequences and return to this item when it becomes appropriate.

How to Teach

Begin by asking your child to bring something familiar from the other side of the room. Next pretend to discover, as you leave a room with your child, that you have forgotten something: ‘Oh! We forgot to bring Teddy. You get Teddy.’ Wait for your child just outside the door. Give your child something to take to someone in another room – this way, she need only remember her mission for the one-way trip. Finally ask her to bring you something from another room, as described under How to Assess.

REMEMBERING AND EXTENDING THIS SEQUENCE

The skills that your child has learned in this sequence will be extended in the other Receptive Languages Sequences. Perhaps you have already begun to work on RL.C: Choosing Between Alternatives: Objects and Pictures, and you can now begin to work on RL.D: Responding to Directions Involving Action Words.