Spontaneous conversation

Background Sally, the youngest in a family of four girls, was described by her mother as a chatterbox, and the tape of her playing mummies and babies with her sisters confirmed that. She went to a playgroup for a month before starting school aged four years and eight months. In playgroup, she did not settle well; in school she did not talk at all and looked unhappy. She was beginning to make friends but her teacher became concerned and believed she had language problems.