How do speech-language disorders affect learning?
Speech and language skills are essential to academic success in many ways. Language skills are needed for reading and writing, learning curricular content, and communicating in the classroom. Language skills are essential to reading and writing. Children need to be able to understand and use language in order to decode words, read fluently, understand what they have read, and spell words. They also use language when writing complete sentences, essays, and narrative stories. In the classroom, children are required to follow multiple directions at one time, listen to and understand new concepts in content areas such as math, language arts, science, and social studies, and learn new vocabulary on a daily basis. Children use language when they solve problems, make inferences, and analyze language, as well. Children also need language skills to communicate in the classroom. They need to be able to ask and answer questions, request clarification and assistance when they don’t understand, and
