A short YouTube video by Ming (Agents of Speech) explaining that "speech delay" is an overgeneralization and distinguishing speech problems (difficulty producing specific sounds, e.g., L produced as Y) from language problems (limited vocabulary, difficulty forming sentences, relying on gestures). The speaker gives examples to help caregivers tell whether a child’s difficulty is with speech sounds, language use, or both.
Speech delay is overgeneralization for what we call a speech and language delay. So speech and language are different. Speech are the sounds that we make when we're talking. So when someone cannot pronounce certain sounds and it makes it harder for us to understand, then there's a speech problem. A very good example would be if a child cannot do the L sound like they say lollipop, yay, pop. The L becomes a Y. There are different types of speech errors. That's a speech problem. Language problem on the other end is something like if a child doesn't have enough words or they have problems making sentences, they haven't started using words yet. They're still using other forms of language for inst. Gestures, body language of pulling you. Those are language problems. So if speech and language problem together, they create something, what we call speech and language, to let.
