SPEECH THERAPY TERMS

• Articulation:
  The oral production of language using breathing, sound, movements of lips, tongue, teeth, and larynx.
  
• Language:
  A rule-governed system for communication using sounds arranged to form words with rules for combining these words into strings that express thoughts, intentions, experiences, and feelings.
• Receptive Language:
  Understanding (translation and meaning) what you hear; listening skills.
• Expressive Language:
  How we communicate our feelings, ideas, and intentions to others.
• Pragmatic Language:
  How we use social language in the environment in which it happens.
• Apraxia:
  There is no paralysis, but the brain has difficulty programming the muscle movements for articulation of sounds.
• Oral Motor:
  Physical exercises for awareness, movement, and control of lips, jaws teeth, tongue, and palate.