Terms may have changed since I was in college
Aphasia is "impairment of the ability to use or understand oral language...there are several classifications that include expressive, receptive, congenital and/or acquired aphasia".
Apraxia involves "difficulty in motor output or in performing purposeful motor movements".
It may comfort you to know that young children begin talking at various stages of development and it is how a child listens to and interprets the sounds (words) he hears that influences how he encodes or expresses his ideas through language. This concept is important to understand before a child can be taught to read. Reading is the act of decoding and comprehending the language of others on the written page.
Intonation refers to the pitch, accent and rhythm of the spoken word. A child who experiences a deficit in this area may have difficulty encoding the idea of the spoken word(oral language).Statistics: Posted by June R Oberlander — Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:43 pm
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