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Speech and Language What’s the difference?

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Page 1: 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

Speech and Language

What’s the difference?

Page 2: 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

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.

Page 3: 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

Examples of Language Difficulties

Page 4: 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

What is Speech?

The term “speech” can refer to the form your language takes, once it leaves your brain.

Page 5: 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

Is it Speech or Language?

Page 6: 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

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.

Page 7: 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

Is it possible to have both speech AND

language difficulties?

Page 8: 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

You betcha!

For instance: some children have low vocabularies, word-retrieval difficulties,

articulation disorders and significant dysfluency.

Page 9: 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

Speech and Language Pathologists …Speech

Language

Help people increase communication abilities, by improving:

• Articulation• Voice• Fluency• And• Language

Skil

ls!