Speech, Language And Communication: The Dictionary Explanation Of Speech

Speech- The dictionary explanation of speech is “The expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds” or “A person's style of speaking” Speaking is physically being able to produce sounds and sound patterns of our own language (mine being English) from our voices, or to be able to produce speech with a familiar rhythm.

Miss Leah Baker UKOC1527 Assignment 12

Speech is made up from all different sounds and from different patterns of sounds which we then form individual words and by

Different use of grammar can change the way the sentences conveys to another person when communicating. Semantics- semantics means to have an understanding that words can be used in different ways and can also have different and a wider use of meanings than just the one use. Pragmatics- this means being able to have the appropriate use of language in different situations and with different types of people communicating effectively and appropriately. It means to have an understanding of open and closed questions, knowing what a question is and when a question requires an answer and to what

We can often take these skills for granted, if we are lucky enough to have no delays in these areas, but many children can unfortunately find it hard and struggle to communicate too another person and are not able to talk or understand as we expect them to do so at their ages, which can leave them feel left out and frustrated. They have speech, language and communication needs or SLCN.

A child that has speech, language and communication