Normal Language Development

What can receptive language skills include

listening and reading, understanding of language, vocabulary, questions, concepts, directions

What can expressive language skills include?

speaking and writing, expression of wants and needs, words, nonverbal communication 

Form

structure, how language looks and sounds

Phonology

the organization of speech sounds to create meaning

Phoneme

speech sounds

Syntax

word order

Morphology

word endings

Content

meaning, the ideas, vocabulary, and concepts benign communicated

Semantics

word meanings

Use

how language is used to communicate

Pragmatics

social rules