Expressive Language Delay and Disorders
Symptoms:
- Difficulty answering questions.
- No words at the age of 2.
- 1- or 2-word combinations at the age of 3.
- Difficulty with basic grammar.
- Difficulty with oral expression resulting in frustration or shyness.
Treatment:
A speech-language pathologist would target language milestones in a developmental progression using a naturalistic play-paradigm with very young children and more structured activities with older students. Treatment may focus on increasing the size and complexity of vocabulary, broadening communicative intentions, producing various word structures (e.g., plurals, possessives, verb tenses, superlatives), improving accuracy and complexity of grammar, producing narratives and explanations, and/or written expression.
A speech-language pathologist would target language milestones in a developmental progression using a naturalistic play-paradigm with very young children and more structured activities with older students. Treatment may focus on increasing the size and complexity of vocabulary, broadening communicative intentions, producing various word structures (e.g., plurals, possessives, verb tenses, superlatives), improving accuracy and complexity of grammar, producing narratives and explanations, and/or written expression.