Language Disorders from Infancy Through Adolescence: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Communicating

by Courtenay Norbury DPhil

the “hiding game.” This procedure can be used to assess understanding of spatial prepositions. Normative data come from Boehm (1989). In the hiding game, the clinician arranges two identical cups on the floor or table so that one is inverted and one is right side up. The clinician gives the client a raisin to hide from a somewhat backward puppet. The catch is that the child must hide the raisin in the place the clinician indicates. The clinician then tells the child to hide the raisin in locations, such as in, on, under, beside, or next to a cup or between the cups. The child hides the raisin and the puppet then “looks” for it in the place the clinician said to put it. If the puppet finds the raisin where the clinician said it should go, the puppet wins the raisin. However, this puppet is a picky eater and does not like raisins, so he always offers the treat to the client. The game continues until each spatial preposition has been tested three times. Using a checklist like the