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Speech and Language What’s the difference?. Definitions: What is Speech? What is Language? The term “Language” can refer to the content in your brain.

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1 Speech and Language What’s the difference?

2 Definitions: What is Speech? What is Language? The term “Language” can refer to the content in your brain. Cognition and language enjoy a reciprocal relationship. We may expect the child on the right to have higher language skills.

3 Examples of Language Difficulties

4 What is Speech? The term “speech” can refer to the form your language takes, once it leaves your brain.

5 Is it Speech or Language?

6 Examples of Speech The way you pronounce words The way your voice sounds How fluent your speech is (ie. stuttering) Your Accent/Your Dialect Examples of Language Vocabulary Grammar Length of utterance Conceptual knowledge: opposites, categories, positions, etc.

7 Is it possible to have both speech AND language difficulties?

8 You betcha! For instance: some children have low vocabularies, word-retrieval difficulties, articulation disorders and significant dysfluency.

9 Speech and Language Pathologists … SpeechLanguage Help people increase communication abilities, by improving: Articulation Voice Fluency And Language Skill s!


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