Language is a two lane pathway; how someone expresses their thoughts and feelings (expressive language), and how they understand the information that is being said to them (receptive language).

Articulation development, or the development of speech sounds, develops in stages from birth to around 6 years of age. Research into the normal acquisition of speech sounds provides us with information about what to expect in terms of when certain sounds are expected to develop in a child’s speech.

An underpinning skill to literacy is the ability to identify and manipulate the sounds in words. This skill is known as phonemic awareness.