Auditory Processing: the ability to attend, discriminate, recognize, comprehend, sequence and/or retain auditory information.
Expressive Language: the ability to communicate thoughts, feelings, ideas, and/or intentions via spoken word, written word, or symbols.
Fluency: the ability to speak at a fluid rate, rhythm, and inflection.
Motor-Planning: refers to the signal that the brain sends to the muscles in the oral cavity for planning, sequencing, and executing movement for speaking.
Oral-Motor: refers to the structural integrity, strength, coordination, and movement of the oral structures for speech sound production.
Phonological (phonemic) Awareness: are pre-literacy skills needed when learning how to read and for developing language. Such as rhyming, sound blending, sound segmentation, and sound manipulation.
Phonological Processes: are sound error patterns in a child's speech that account for substitutions, omissions, or additions of speech sounds that make a child difficult to understand.
Pragmatic Language: is how one uses language in a socially appropriate way. Usually referring to eye contact, conversational skills, turn-taking, and topic initiation, topic maintenance, and termination of topics when speaking with others.
Receptive Language: the ability to understand spoken language to derive meaning.
Semantics: is word knowledge and vocabulary.
Syntax: is word order in a sentence relating to appropriate grammar use and sentence structure.