Semantics of the Language Sign in Speech Therapy Studies and Procedure

Studying the comprehension of a word is one of the basic stages of the speech therapy diagnostic procedure. Hence, the procedure itself, is to check whether an examined person knows what given words mean. The methods used, however, allow to register only a limited range of semantic structure. The article demonstrates possibilities of describing words’ meaning applied by the scholarly disciplines that actually deal with those units i.e. psychology and linguistics. Thus while introducing ongoing alterations of scholars’ views on the formation of the semantic structure of words in speech development, the author urges the need to instigate a study on the meaning of the basic unit - word in both the research on speech development and disorders, and speech therapy procedures.