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Oral Apraxia
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Apraxia of Speech, Reading, & Spelling
Autism: Beyond the Behavioral Checklist
Boys and Reading
The Extra Work of Multiple Word Meanings and Word Play
Feeling of Knowing /
Tip of the Tongue
Geniuses at a Loss for Words
Learning Idioms by Context
The Movie in Your Head
Music Helps Memory for Words
Preemies at School
Resource for Idioms
Saving the Family Dinner
Speech and Language Games
Talking with Your Hands
Teaching with Provocation
The Benefits of Talking to Oneself
Understanding Inference
What Reading Does for the Mind
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Expressive Language
Expressive language disorders
refer to problems speaking. This may be due to a variety
of causes, from auditory processing problems (including
chronic ear infections), to sensory motor problems
involving the speech muscles, to problems with language
or language organizational centers in the brain.
Children who are delayed with words or full sentences in
the preschool years are often referred to as Late
Talkers. Many late talkers can get misdiagnosed as
having social adjustment problems, global developmental
delay, or even an autism spectrum disorder because
aren't able to communicate at an age-appropriate level.
Secondary emotional and behavioral problems can result
from uncorrected expressive language disorders; children
may socially withdraw or have more emotional outbursts
if they can't make themselves understood with their
words.
If these problems are occurring, helping to identify the
source of the problem. It might be that your student
needs targeted practice with word definitions, sentence
construction, or motor articulation. Or it may be that
he's not clearly hearing differences in similar sounds
or the normal pauses and music or prosody of speech, so
he can't be expected to express them.
Often kids with expressive language difficulty need some
time to double back and work on the basic building
blocks of language expression - then once that clicks,
they can rapidly jump ahead in language-heavy work.
Outside Links
AmericanAccent.com
Apraxia-Kids Library
Caroline Bowen's
Speech Site
Happy Note
(free game to train pitch)
Phonetics Site
Randall's
Cyber-Listening
Lab
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