WELCOME TO SPEECH & LANGUAGE WITH MRS. M

Hi everyone! My name is Mrs. Mulderrig (Mrs. M).

I am one of the Speech-Language Pathologist at Woodside Elementary School!

LANGUAGE

Communication is the exchange of information between two parties. One significant part of this process is a person’s ability to formulate and understand language.

Language is comprised of 5 main areas which are explained as follows:

• Morphology – how individual words are put together, word endings, prefixes

• Syntax – the rules we use to put sentences together in an order that makes sense

• Phonology – the rules and patterns that we use to put sounds together and recognize errors

• Semantics – the use and understanding of language (word meanings, word relations)

• Pragmatics – the way we use language for social exchanges

Deficits in one or more areas may or may not compromise a student’s ability to communicate with both their teachers and peers.