Literacy Partnerships: the Very Early Years

Referral Indicators

(Acknowledgments to Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy Departments Gippsland Southern Health Service)

One Year

Refer to Occupational Therapist if:

  • Unable to sit well on floor and for definite time.
  • Does not crawl on hands and knees.
  • Unable to walk around furniture - lifting one foot and stepping sideways.
  • Does not look in correct place for toys.
  • Unable to grasp fine object - between thumb and tip of index finger.
  • Unable to point with index finger at required object.

Refer to Speech Pathologist if:

  • Child isn't babbling and using voice to get attention.
  • Concerned that child isn't hearing.
  • Child isn't chewing food.