When a parent/caregiver and a child or patient come for an evaluation, the child may feel a bit nervous. The parent can comfort the child by letting him/her know that the evaluation is both like working and playing in a classroom. The parent/caregiver may be asked to stay in the room with his/her child until the child is comfortable to interact one-on-one with the clinician. The components of the evaluation will vary from child to child, depending on their age, (bilingual) speech and language abilities and parent/caregiver concerns. The child may be involved in some or all of the following:

• Play: Interaction with toys while playing with you (parent/caregiver) and/or speech-language pathologist
• Conducting an oral motor examination: opening his/her mouth, moving his/her tongue and making certain sounds (consonants/vowels)
• Articulation/Phonology, Receptive and Expressive Language abilities: Imitating the speech-language pathologist making sounds/words. Naming objects and pictures, following directions, telling stories, and answering questions
• Informal Test Measures/Scales in English/Urdu/Hindi languages
• Formal Test Measures/Scales in the English language