Speech Therapy

Social pragmatic skills are the everyday language and behavior people use to connect with others. They include knowing how to start and keep a conversation, take turns, read facial expressions and tone of voice, change how you talk depending on the person or setting, and understand the unspoken rules of play and friendship.

Receptive language is how a child understands words, sentences, and directions. Expressive language is how a child uses words, sentences, gestures, or other ways to tell others what they think or need.

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or AAC, is any way a person communicates other than or in addition to talking.

Phonological processing describes the ways a child hears, remembers, and works with the sounds in speech.

Articulation is the way a child moves their mouth, lips, tongue, and jaw to make speech sounds. When a child struggles with articulation, some sounds may be left off, changed, or unclear.

Talking milestones are the common steps children take as they learn to communicate. These steps include making sounds, using first words, combining words into short phrases, and carrying on simple back-and-forth conversations.

Some children have difficulty planning and coordinating the precise movements of the lips, tongue, and jaw that make speech sound clear.