The American Association of Speech Hearing and Language uses this explanation for the term 'language'...

What Is Language?

Language refers to the words we use and how we use them to share ideas and get what we want. Language includes:

• What words mean. Some words have more than one meaning. For example, “star” can be a bright object in the sky or someone famous.
• How to make new words. For example, we can say “friend,” “friendly,” or “unfriendly” and mean something different.
• How to put words together. For example, in English we say, “Peg walked to the new store” instead of “Peg walk store new.”
• What we should say at different times. For example, we might be polite and say, “Would you mind moving your foot?” But, if the person does not move, we may say, “Get off my foot!”

Whether a student has difficulties with semantics (word meaning), syntax (word order), morphology (word structure) or pragmatics (social language), a speech-language pathologist is available to evaluate language skills and create a treatment plan to improve your student's communication as it relates to the educational process.