A speech and language evaluation is the measurement of a person’s communication skills. It is done to find out if a person has communication problems. The evaluation is done by a speech-language clinician.

The speech-language clinician gathers information by asking questions about your child and testing the child. Depending upon the age and attention span of the child, the evaluation may be completed in one session. Or, it may be spread over several sessions. The length of the evaluation will vary with the amount of testing that needs to be done.