These skills provide a foundation for language development. They include attention, memory, problem solving, reasoning, planning, and safety awareness. As a whole, some of these skills are referred to as executive functioning skills.
Expressive oneself is a critical skill. Using vocabulary (semantics), word order to make sentences or questions (syntax) and knowing who, why, and when to say something to express one’s thoughts, needs and desires (pragmatics/social use of language) is language expression. This can be done in many ways. The most common way to express one’s self is through talking. For those who cannot talk verbally, they can express themselves using alternative and augmentative communication (i.e., sign language, gestures, pictures, and communication devices or talking computers). Another form of expressive communication is writing.
Sensory processing disorder may affect one sense, like hearing, touch, or taste. Or it may affect multiple senses. And people can be over- or under-responsive to the things they have difficulties with. Like many illnesses, the symptoms of sensory processing disorder exist on a spectrum.
This refers to the language that a person understands. It encompasses how a person understands simple or complex information as well as sequences of directions. Receptive language includes understanding verbal language and also in written form, otherwise known as reading comprehension.
Sensory processing disorder may affect one sense, like hearing, touch, or taste. Or it may affect multiple senses. And people can be over- or under-responsive to the things they have difficulties with. Like many illnesses, the symptoms of sensory processing disorder exist on a spectrum.
Speech diagnoses include analysis of how a person says sounds correctly (known as articulation), their motor speech abilities (impairments are typically known as Dysarthria or Apraxia of Speech) and their fluency of speech.
Sensory processing disorder may affect one sense, like hearing, touch, or taste. Or it may affect multiple senses. And people can be over- or under-responsive to the things they have difficulties with. Like many illnesses, the symptoms of sensory processing disorder exist on a spectrum.
