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Language and Speech Development Learning to speak with correct articulation requires:
• Articulation: how we produce or make speech sounds. • Speech: the sound pattern of language. • Language: a tool we use to express ideas and feelings. • The growth and motor control of the lips, jaws, teeth, and tongue, the hard palate and the velum or soft palate. • The ability to hear and distinguish speech sounds. • Cognitive development, the growth of thinking skills. Learning to speak is a process that normally develops gradually from infancy to seven or eight years of age. Children develop speech abilities at different rates and ages. Some children develop faster or slower than the average. Click below to see normal developmental milestones for various ages:
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