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By Mayo Clinic staffA speech-language pathologist will conduct tests and informal observations to assess language skills, such as the ability to:
- Name common objects
- Engage in a conversation
- Understand and use words correctly
- Answer questions about something read or heard
- Follow instructions
- Explain steps of a process
- Answer yes-no questions and respond to open-ended questions about common subjects
- Tell a story or explain the plot of a story
- Explain a joke or a figurative phrase, such as "I need to unwind"
- Read and write letters, words and sentences
