Speech/Language Therapy is provided for the treatment of communication disorders which includes language, articulation, voice and fluency.
Receptive Language: The ability to understand spoken language.
Expressive Language: The ability to express thoughts, feelings and ideas verbally.
Pragmatic Language: The use of language in a social context.
Articulation: The ability to pronounce sounds or sound sequences to produce speech.
Voice: The production of sound using the vocal cavity. The parameters of voice include: pitch, nasality and volume.
Fluency: The smoothness in which sounds, syllables, words and phrases are joined together when speaking.