There are many components of language!

• Receptive language: The ability to understand the information coming in from others

• Expressive language: The ability to use language to communicate one’s message

• Language therapy can address both oral and written language skills

• Language plays a big part in reading. Decoding (the act of reading words) requires a child to be able to take apart the sounds in words (segmenting) and blend together sounds to make words.  It requires both knowledge of letter-sound relationships, as well as an ability to apply that knowledge to successfully identify written words and make meaning.

• Early phonological disorders of speech can have an effect on developing literacy skills.