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Students who receive speech/language therapy work to improve their communication skills in one or more of the following areas:
Articulation: using speech sounds correctly, including phonemic awareness and phonological development
Receptive Language: comprehending language, including auditory processing
Expressive Language: expressing thoughts, feelings, ideas, needs and questions adequately and efficiently including the use of age appropriate vocabulary, syntax, grammar and semantics
Pragmatic Language: nonverbal communication and social skills such as turn taking, topic maintenance, maintaining appropriate eye contact, awareness of communicative partners responses and adjusting communication style to fit a situation
Fluency: learning to speak without stuttering
Voice: using appropriate volume, nasality, and voice for communication
Expectations for student behavior in speech /language groups include:
appropriately walking to and from speech room
participating with excellent effort
being respectful at all times including peers and materials
Articulation: using speech sounds correctly, including phonemic awareness and phonological development
Receptive Language: comprehending language, including auditory processing
Expressive Language: expressing thoughts, feelings, ideas, needs and questions adequately and efficiently including the use of age appropriate vocabulary, syntax, grammar and semantics
Pragmatic Language: nonverbal communication and social skills such as turn taking, topic maintenance, maintaining appropriate eye contact, awareness of communicative partners responses and adjusting communication style to fit a situation
Fluency: learning to speak without stuttering
Voice: using appropriate volume, nasality, and voice for communication
Expectations for student behavior in speech /language groups include:
appropriately walking to and from speech room
participating with excellent effort
being respectful at all times including peers and materials