Speech and Language What’s the difference?. Definitions: What is Speech? What is Language? The...

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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.

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Examples of Language Difficulties

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What is Speech?

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

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Is it Speech or Language?

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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.

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Is it possible to have both speech AND

language difficulties?

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You betcha!

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

articulation disorders and significant dysfluency.

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Speech and Language Pathologists …Speech

Language

Help people increase communication abilities, by improving:

• Articulation• Voice• Fluency• And• Language

Skil

ls!