Language therapy addresses:

Receptive Language

The skills to understand language-not spoken.

Expressive Language

The ability to express oneself through spoken word.

Semantics- vocabulary

Syntax- word order in a sentence

Morphology- grammar, use of plurals, possessives

Pragmatics- social use of language and its rules

Language Therapy

3 Year Olds

-  The child is not using pronouns I, you, me or  verbs ending in "ing"

- The child is unable to use 3-4 words in a sentence.

- The child has difficulties following spatial directions (under, on top, front, back, out, in)

- The child needs prompts to ask  ''what'' questions or can not describe use of objects ( spoon)

4 Year Olds

- The child is unable to use 4-5 words in a sentence

- The child's conversation skills are not emerging

- The child needs prompts to ask  "why" questions

- The child has difficulty understanding concepts of longer, behind, next to or cannot name common objects in picture books

- The child has difficulties with simple categories