When It Is Used
Use it when a practitioner needs a baseline or follow-up picture of a child's social communication stage and skills for intervention planning.
More Than Words Social Communication Checklist
The More Than Words Social Communication Checklist is a ready-to-send stage and skill profile tool for practitioners supporting a child's social communication development. It helps practitioners organize checklist responses into a current profile, identify strengths and gaps, and compare baseline and follow-up administrations.
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Tool guide
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Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
The tool captures checklist responses or observations required by the source structure and organizes them into a stage/skill profile with completion state, strengths, gaps, and comparison history.
Important Limits
The tool does not create new checklist items, stage labels, diagnostic conclusions, severity scores, or intervention prescriptions.
Can caregivers complete the checklist?
Yes. The caregiver can complete the assigned checklist or complete it with the practitioner when appropriate.
Does the demo show real stage labels or checklist items?
No. Exact checklist items, response options, stage labels, and scoring rules are unresolved in the supplied specification, so the demo must represent them as source-defined content without inventing them.
Can the tool compare baseline and follow-up profiles?
Yes. When two comparable completed administrations exist, the review can show a side-by-side pre/post comparison using the same profile structure.
Does the tool diagnose a child?
No. It organizes checklist responses into a descriptive stage/skill profile and does not provide diagnostic conclusions.