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Elklan. Speech and Language Support for 3-5s%u00a9 Elklan Training Limited 2023 204S99.4.0 THE PROCESSES INVOLVED IN SAYING WORDS(Slide 269)%u2022 Show the slide %u2018the processes involved in saying words.%u2019%u2022 Explain the processes A, B, C and D.%u2022 Explain that at A you have to be able to hear and discriminate between speech sounds. The information from the ear then has to be processed by the Speech Processing System (B) appropriately. This system of processing is complex. If there is a problem with this system or, as is more likely, if this system is immature, then the information will not be processed accurately. This could lead to an incorrect sound code being stored at C. %u2022 Explain that if the sound code in the %u2018word store%u2019 C is incorrect then every time the child wants to say that word, the incorrect code will be accessed, incorrect information will be sent to the articulators at D and the child will articulate the sound incorrectly.%u2022 Explain that this session will focus on children with phonological delay.9.4.1 Other speech disorders%u2022 There are other speech difficulties and disorders but phonological delay is the most usual and is the difficulty which will be explored during this session.9.5.0. SUMMARY%u2022 Some of you may be aware of these patterns. %u2022 Don%u2019t worry about diagnosing them. %u2022 It is the speech and language therapist%u2019s responsibility to analyse samples of speech, identify which patterns of difficulties are occurring and advise which sounds to help first.%u2022 It is the speech and language therapist%u2019s responsibility also to diagnose between phonological delay and other speech disorders and advise accordingly.%u2022 However, being aware of these patterns will help you: