Language impairments often impact one or both of the following areas:
Receptive Language Skills:
The ability to, process, comprehend, retain, or integrate spoken language. Receptive language disorders are often observed as difficulties with under-standing what is being said to them. Children need to understand language before they can use language effectively. In most cases, the child with a receptive language disorder also have an expressive language disorder, which means they have difficulty using spoken language.
Expressive Language Skills:
The ability to put words together to express thoughts cohesively. Children may demonstrate delays in expressive language development. Language deficits are often associated with difficulty acquiring syntactic an morphological rules of language and difficulty with expressive vocabulary.
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