SPEECH THERAPY

RECEPTIVE- EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE DELAYS

Receptive (what your child understands) and Expressive (what your child says): Language delays-disorders occur when a child doesn’t understand and or produce language at the expected age and levels. In most instances, children develop receptive language skills first. A Receptive Language delay is difficulty understanding words, and or gestures. An Expressive Language delay occurs when a child presents difficulties  expressing wants, needs, and or ideas.

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ARTICULATION-PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES 

Articulation (how a child produces sounds) and Phonological Process disorder (pattern of errors that affect multiple sounds) relate to speech production and are very similar and often grouped together, although there is a key difference between them. An Articulation disorder is when a child has difficulty saying particular consonants or vowels. A Phonological Process disorder involves patterns of sound errors, such as substituting all sounds made in the back of the mouth like "k" and "g" for those in the front of the mouth like "t" and "d". 

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APRAXIA OF SPEECH 

Apraxia of Speech is a motor disorder when the brain fails to plan and coordinate movements of articulators (mouth, lips, jaws, toungue) for specific actions. Or when the signal from the brain is changed or broken on its way to the mouth, making word production and voluntary speech difficult. Key characteristics include vowel distortions, putting stress on the wrong syllable in words, using a monotone voice, difficulty imitating words, difficulty transitioning from one sound or syllable to another.

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SOCIAL PRAGMATIC LANGUAGE DELAY

This is when children have difficulties using verbal and nonverbal communuication for social purposes. Children tend to feel anxious or worried in social situations, find it hard to pay attention, present difficulties communicationg for social purposes (saying hello) and following social rules (taking turns while conversing).

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