PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Speech Disorder, Language Disorder, Phoneme
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Speech and language: these are both forms of communication, some components of communication involve language but not speech, ex: reading, writing, sign language, body language, facial expression, hand gestures, what we wear, and the use of office space, as societies have progressed, we are using less and less speech, and more of other forms of communications (i. e. , texting), when you look at things historically, speech used to be the supreme form of communication, especially when there were no literate forms of communication, speech is one means of expressing language but not the only one, it is an auditory form of communication, language represents the message that is contained in speech, people, who have a language disorder rather than speech disorders, will have a hard time finding words to communicate or even understand what others are communicating, in humans, the development of communication, language, and speech overlap to some degree.
