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Receptive Language What the child
understands
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Expressive Language How the child uses
their language
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Pragmatics Social skills / integrative
language skills
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Semantics Word meaning
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Syntax Sentence structure
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Articulation Disorder
Speech-motor-control problem
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Phonological Processing patterns of
errors
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Oral Motor exercises to help the lips,
tongue and cheeks for
feeding or articulation
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MLU (Mean Length of Utterance) An
average of many words
a child combines
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Fluency Deals with stuttering
(fluent=no stuttering,
dysfluent=stuttered speech)
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Augmentative Communication
Communication through
pictures or written words presented through a
board, book or
computerized device
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Hypotonia Low muscle tone
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Apraxia of Speech - a difficulty
coordinating the sequences of
movements necessary for speech
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Echolalia nonfunctional repetition
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Audiology The study of hearing,
disorders and management of
those disorders
