The development of vocabulary and grammatical skills is important to the development of any language. Formulating ideas and expressing them in a clear and understandable manner are also necessary. This includes following directions, answering questions, and understanding stories. Goals and activities which encourage these abilities are an integral part of the services your child receives. Expressive speech means different goals for different children.
Some children work on improving specific sounds that they have difficulty hearing and saying.
In addition, some children work on improving their voice quality and ability to control the loudness level of their voice. Still others focus on using vocalizations appropriately and for attention getting purposes. Speechreading includes more than just lipreading words that a person speaks. Speechreading uses all of the information available from a speaker. Children practice mouthing the words that they are learning to speechread.