![What are Play Skills? [Implications for Speech and Language Development]](https://www.communicationcommunity.com/content/images/2024/08/How-to-Write-Self-Determination-Goals---2-.png)
Play skills are significant when it comes to a child’s speech and language development. Play provides some of the earliest opportunities for a child to develop social skills and to form symbolic relationships. These areas serve for later developing higher-level language functions.
![How to Write Expressive Language Goals [with goal bank]](https://www.communicationcommunity.com/content/images/2024/07/How-to-Write-Expressive-Language-Goals--with-goal-bank-.png)
Expressive language goals focus on an individual’s use of language. This post will explain how to write goals to address expressive language in intervention using the Communication Community Goal Writing Formula!
Expressive language is the language that we produce or use to communicate messages. One’s primary expressive language system can look different depending on the individual. We will talk about how phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics play a role in expressive language.
This month, we interviewed Micaela, a Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in New York. She shared what she does and how she works with SLPs as she helps support students who are Deaf or hard of hearing (e.g. have hearing loss of some type)
![How to Write Articulation Goals [with goal bank]](https://www.communicationcommunity.com/content/images/2024/08/how-to-write-articulation-goals.png)
Articulation goals with goal bank included in this post! Part of our larger goal bank series. We discuss our Communication Community Goal Writing Formula and how you can use this to write quick and easy artic goals for therapy.
Receptive language is the language that we understand. When we are listening to someone speak or when we read, we are using our receptive language skills. We will talk about how phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics play a role in receptive language.
The 5 domains of language include: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Why are they important for therapy and language development? We will discuss why!
