A developmental language deficit marked by reduced vocabulary, shortened utterance length, and impaired syntactic complexity relative to age-matched peers.
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| Patient will use 2-3 word combinations to express wants and needs with 80% accuracy across 3 sessions given visual supports. |
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| Patient will label common objects and actions in pictures with 80% accuracy given a field of 4. |
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| Patient will use age-appropriate pronouns (he/she/they) in structured sentences with 80% accuracy given verbal models. |
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| Patient will formulate grammatically correct simple sentences (subject-verb-object) with 75% accuracy given visual cues. |
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| Patient will use regular past tense verbs (-ed) in structured sentences with 80% accuracy given a verbal prompt. |
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| Patient will retell a short story with 3+ story elements in sequential order given picture supports. |
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| Patient will ask and answer WH-questions (who, what, where) with 80% accuracy across structured activities. |
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| Patient will increase mean length of utterance (MLU) by 1.0 morphemes over baseline within a 6-month treatment period. |
Use the SOAP note templates on this page: build the Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan sections from the ready-made expressive language delay phrases. Each uses skilled-service, insurance-defensible language — document the patient's performance plus the skilled intervention you provided, then review and individualize before signing.
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