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246 + Reference Manual for Communicative Sciences and Disorders Item 5.75. Symbolic Play Scale Check List Play Language Stage | - 9 to 12 months —— Awareness that objects exist when not seen: finds toy hidden under scarf ——Means-end behavior crawls or walks to get what he wants: pulls string toys —— Does not mouth or bang all toys - some used appropriately ——No truc language; may have performe- uve words, iwords that are associated with actions or the total situation} Exhibits following communicative functions —— Request (instrumental) —— Command (regulary) Stage Il - 13 to 17 months —— Purposeful exploration of toys: discovers operavion of toys through trial and error: uses variety of motoric schemas —— Hands toy to adult if unable to operate —Comtext dependent single words, for example, child may use the word “car” when riding in a car, but not when he sees a car; words tend to come and go in child's vocabulary Exhibits following communicative functions — Request —— Protesting — Command — Label ——Interactional — __ Response —— Personal —— Greeting Stage IH] - 17 to 19 months ——Autosymbolic play, for example, child pretends to go to sleep or pretends to drink from cup or eat from spoon —— Uses most common objects and toys ap- propriately —— Tol-use (uses stick to reach toy) — Finds toys invisibly hidden (when placed in box and box emptied under scarf) Beginning of true verbal communication Words have following functional and semantic relations: —— Recurrence —— Agent —__ Existence —— Obdjea ——Nonexistence ___ Action or state —— Rejection — Location —— Denial —— Object or person associated with object or location Stage IV - 19 to 22 months Symbolic play extends beyond the child's self: — Plays with dol's: brushes doll’s hnir, teeds doll a bottle, or cavers doll with blanket —— Child performs pretend activities on more than one person or object: for example, feeds self, a doll, mother, and another child —— Combines two toys in pretend play, for example, puts spoon in pan or pours from pot into cup —— Refers to objects and persons not present Beginning of word combinations with follow. ing semantic relations —— Agent-action — Action-object —— Agent-object —— Attributive —— Dative — Action-locative —— Objeci-locative —— Possessive NOTES (Continued! 
