Speech vs. Language (There's a difference!)
Many people can be confused about whether their child has a speech or a language disorder (or both). Well, there is a difference between Speech and Language.
Speech is the ability to produce sounds. The physical means of communicating. A Speech disorder is an important of articulation of speech sounds, fluency, and/or voice.
Whereas...
Language is a socially shared set of rules that involves comprehension (receptive) and use (expressive) of a spoken, written, and/or other symbolic systems. A language disorder may involve a breakdown in the form of language (phonology, morphology, syntax), the content of language (semantics) or the functional/social use of language (pragmatics).
It is possible for someone to have both a speech and a language delay/disorder.
For more information regarding speech and/or language components, please click the links below!
Information from this section was collected from www.ASHA.org