Expressive+Language

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Defintion:
The ability to use sounds,signs,or symbols to communicate meaning. HGD, Chapter 5, p. 122

Examples:
A) First Words typically appears at about 12 or 13 months. The baby's first word is an event that parents eagerly await, but it's fairly easy to miss. B) Expressive Language Disorder is an impairment in expressive language development in a child as demonstrated by scores on standardized individually administered measures of expressive language development substantially below those obtained from standardized measures of both nonverbal intellectual capacity and receptive language development. The difficulties may occur in communication involving both verbal language and sign language.

Analogies:
Expressive language is like being deaf. Babies learning Sign Language to communicate before they are completely able to speak.

Mnemonics:
Express Do Sign

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